I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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?
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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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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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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