While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
JACK KEROUACThe only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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 beauty of things must be that they end.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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