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Jack Kerouac

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 feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Feeling Guilty Human Myself Race
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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Art Dedication Dreams Myself Sleep Suffering
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Dream Greatness Happiness Strange
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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Day Dreams Night True
If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Story True Wrong Yourself
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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People River Separate Start Yourself
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Dangerous Love Pain Reality Yourself
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Hard Time Myself Right Swimming
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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Death Give Up Holy Laughter Myself Promise World
A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Smile Social Teeth
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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Experience Health Hide Learning Life Man Solitude Strength True
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
Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Bliss Ecstasy Essence Forever Happiness Mindset Ourselves Thinking True
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Choice Crazy Myself Right World
What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Direction Journey Myself Path Store
It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Adventure Crazy End Sky
I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Death Give Up Laughter Myself Promise
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
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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Act Easy Feeling Goodness Inspirational Leaving Myself Possible Rich Surprise
Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Greatness Love Myself
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Location Silence
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Believe Myself True Writing
You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Escape Live World Yourself
Pretty girls make graves.
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Girl Grave One Liner Pretty Woman
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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Death Greatness Hope Life Myself True

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