Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUACMy life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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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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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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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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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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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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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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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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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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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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