Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
JACK KEROUACThe beauty of things must be that they end.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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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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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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 that you feel will find its own form.
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy 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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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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