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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.
Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.
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What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
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...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
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The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
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but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
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Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
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The unspeakable visions of the individual.
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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The taste of rain -- Why kneel?
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.
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I felt free and therefore I was free.
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It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
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