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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

Jack Kerouac

I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Hard Time Myself Right Swimming
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
JACK KEROUAC

Believe Myself True Writing
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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Bright Day Light Need Photography Rain Sun
Pretty girls make graves.
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Girl Grave One Liner Pretty Woman
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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Deep See Thinking Wake Up
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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People Phone Poetry
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
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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Disappearance Hide Myself Night Run
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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Flame Forever Light Myself Pretend Time
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
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
The beauty of things must be that they end.
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Beautiful Deep End Wisdom
You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Knowledge Myself Surprise Yourself
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
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
The only truth is music.
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Music One Liner Truth

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