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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Jack Kerouac

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
My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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Life Myself One Liner
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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Bright Day Light Need Photography Rain Sun
It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Enough Love Time
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Bed Better Comfortable Freedom Sleep
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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Borrow Life Live Worth Yourself
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
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Location Silence
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Equality Idol Inspirational Yourself
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
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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Fall Forgiveness Man Myself Peace Woman World
While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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Darkness Enlightenment Light True Wisdom
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
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Confusion Myself Offering
The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Best Experience Teacher View
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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Enjoyment Live Myself Nature Need Solitude Stop Thinking
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Dream Greatness Happiness Strange
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
For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Holy Life Moments Precious
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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End Leaving Talk
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Feeling Guilty Human Myself Race
Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Build Creation Feeling Yourself
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
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Born Genius One Liner Talent
A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Smile Social Teeth
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself

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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