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 KEROUACIf you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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