The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
JACK KEROUACThe road must eventually lead to the whole world.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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?
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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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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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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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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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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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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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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