You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
JACK KEROUACSo 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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