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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

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
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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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.
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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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