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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?

Jack Kerouac

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself
Pretty girls make graves.
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Girl Grave One Liner Pretty Woman
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
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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Forever Gold Goodness Myself Night Soft Stars
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Choice Crazy Myself Right World
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Evidence Kindness Rest Yourself
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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Bliss Ecstasy Essence Forever Happiness Mindset Ourselves Thinking 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
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
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
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Feeling Guilty Human Myself Race
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
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
He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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Himself Nature Place Stars Stay Tired
Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Goodness Life Love Rich

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