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?
JACK KEROUACOn soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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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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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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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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The only truth is music.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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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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