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.
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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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The only truth is music.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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