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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

Jack Kerouac

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Control Failure Mistake Myself Passion
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Enough Love Time
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Born Genius One Liner Talent
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Build Empty Freedom Glow Life Myself Page Power
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
I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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Money Myself Possible Understand Work
Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Build Creation Feeling Yourself
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
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
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
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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Compassionate Cruelty God Holy Personality Sea Universe
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Leadership Road Spiritual World
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Myself Right Simplicity Word
I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Argument Dog God Love Master Wisdom
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
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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People Phone Poetry
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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Capability Girl Herself Horrible Personality Sweet
If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Story True Wrong Yourself
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Nature Reality Spiritual World
For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Holy Life Moments Precious
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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Disappearance Hide Myself Night Run
My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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Life Myself One Liner
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Eyes Life Myself Tears
Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Soul Wait Yourself
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
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself

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