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.
JACK KEROUACThe only truth is music.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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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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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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