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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

Jack Kerouac

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Dream Greatness Happiness Strange
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Bitter Fierce Myself People Result True
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Control Failure Mistake Myself Passion
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Dangerous Love Pain Reality Yourself
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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Compassionate Cruelty God Holy Personality Sea Universe
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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Flame Forever Light Myself Pretend Time
If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Story True Wrong Yourself
I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Hard Time Myself Right Swimming
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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End Leaving Talk
You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Knowledge Myself Surprise Yourself
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Death Easy End Serious Start Yourself
The silence was an intense roar.
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Intense One Liner Silence Sound
I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Argument Dog God Love Master Wisdom
I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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Money Myself Possible Understand Work
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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Deep See Thinking Wake Up
I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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Act Cry Feeling World Yourself
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Behind Inspirational Myself Road
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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Live Madness Myself People Save Talk
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself
The beauty of things must be that they end.
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Beautiful Deep End Wisdom
Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Soul Wait Yourself
Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Build Creation Feeling Yourself
He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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Himself Nature Place Stars Stay Tired
It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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Angel Believe Fall Forever Girl Life Lose Love Philosophy Relationship Sun Wisdom
You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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Inspirational Motivational Planning Success World Yourself
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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Adventure Death End Inspirational Motivational Nature Remember Time Travel Work Yourself
This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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Country Freedom Story Thinking

I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

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