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.
JACK KEROUACI feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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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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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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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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The only truth is music.
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