This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
JACK KEROUACNight 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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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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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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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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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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