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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

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
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
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Acceptance Life Love Yourself
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
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame 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
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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Live Madness Myself People Save Talk
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
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
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.
JACK KEROUAC

Art Dedication Dreams Myself Sleep Suffering
What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Direction Journey Myself Path Store
A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Smile Social Teeth
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Death Easy End Serious Start Yourself
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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Dreams Fact Kind Man Night Togetherness World
The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
JACK KEROUAC

Best Experience Teacher View

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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