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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

Jack Kerouac

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself
I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Death Give Up Laughter Myself Promise
It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Adventure Crazy End Sky
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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Act Easy Feeling Goodness Inspirational Leaving Myself Possible Rich Surprise
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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Compassionate Cruelty God Holy Personality Sea Universe
I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Argument Dog God Love Master Wisdom
Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Build Creation Feeling Yourself
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Born Genius One Liner Talent
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Dangerous Love Pain Reality Yourself
It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Enough Love Time
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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Enjoyment Live Myself Nature Need Solitude Stop Thinking
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.
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Death Greatness Hope Life Myself True
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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Borrow Life Live Worth Yourself
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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Art Dedication Dreams Myself Sleep Suffering
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Heaven Kindness Practice Yourself
The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Best Experience Teacher View
Pretty girls make graves.
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Girl Grave One Liner Pretty Woman
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Myself Right Simplicity Word
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Control Failure Mistake Myself Passion
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Dream Greatness Happiness Strange
I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Hard Time Myself Right Swimming
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Build Empty Freedom Glow Life Myself Page Power
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Location Silence
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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Angel Believe Fall Forever Girl Life Lose Love Philosophy Relationship Sun Wisdom
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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Experience Health Hide Learning Life Man Solitude Strength True
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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Act Cry Feeling World Yourself

All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

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