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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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• In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Essence, Ideas

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• An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Sick, Realization

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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• She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

  Jack Kerouac

  Soul, Firsts, Lips

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.17, BookBaby

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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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• All of life is a foreign country.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Country, Travel

  1949 Letter, 24 Jun.

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Crazy, Hands

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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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• 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?

  Jack Kerouac

  Compassion, Sea, Personality

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Desolation

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

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• I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Delight, Rebellion

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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