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.
JACK KEROUACWho 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?
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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 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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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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