The beauty of things must be that they end.
JACK KEROUACThe only truth is music.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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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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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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