Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUACI saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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