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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

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
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 was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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Country Freedom Story Thinking
What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Direction Journey Myself Path Store
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Heaven Kindness Practice Yourself
Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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Drink Enjoyment Life
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Equality Idol Inspirational Yourself
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Behind Inspirational Myself Road
I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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Act Cry Feeling World Yourself
You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Knowledge Myself Surprise Yourself
If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Story True Wrong Yourself
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
For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Holy Life Moments Precious
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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Flame Forever Light Myself Pretend Time
Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Believe Holy Life One Liner
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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People River Separate Start Yourself
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Evidence Kindness Rest Yourself
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Myself Right Simplicity Word
All of life is a foreign country.
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Country Foreign Life One Liner
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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Art Dedication Dreams Myself Sleep Suffering
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Dream Greatness Happiness Strange
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
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Choice Crazy Myself Right World
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
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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Fall Forgiveness Man Myself Peace Woman World

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

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