Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
JACK KEROUACI 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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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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