The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
JACK KEROUACLife must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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