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.
JACK KEROUACFor life is holy and every moment is precious.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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