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Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.

Jack Kerouac

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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Ethereal
Flower
Live
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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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Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
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Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.
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