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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Art

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• It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Falling In Love, Too Much, Helping

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• What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Mean, Men

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

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• Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

  Jack Kerouac

  People, Bitterness, Fierce

  Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters”, p.33, Penguin

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• Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

  Jack Kerouac

  All Things, Good Will

  "On the Road".

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• Pretty girls make graves

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Pretty Girl, Graves

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

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• The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Night, Ties

  Jack Kerouac (2001). “Book of Dreams”, p.15, City Lights Books

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• My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Shoes, Clean

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.8, Penguin

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• I felt free and therefore I was free.

  Jack Kerouac

  Felt

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.138, Penguin

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• All of life is a foreign country.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Country, Travel

  1949 Letter, 24 Jun.

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Yelling

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Teeth, Mouths, Sociable

  "Desolation Angels". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1965.

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• It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.237, Penguin

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• You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspiration, Idols, Given

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Satori in Paris and Pic”, p.77, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Crazy, Hands

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• I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Morning

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.289, Penguin UK

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• Believe in the holy contour of life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Believe, Relaxation, Holy

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.217, Library of America

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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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  Compassion, Sea, Personality

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Fighting, Men

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Delight, Rebellion

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• Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.

  Jack Kerouac

  Desolation

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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• If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Art, Powerful

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.402, Library of America

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• I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Song

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

  Jack Kerouac

  Suicide, Drinking, Beer

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• You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Yesterday, Littles

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.65, Penguin

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