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Life advice from Jack Kerouac (via Flavorwire)
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.” — The Dharma Bums
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”
“Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.”
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he’s hungry and sleep when he’s sleepy.” – Lonesome Traveller
“The only truth is music.”
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.” — On the Road
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running — that’s the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters.” — The Dharma Bums
“Sociability is just a big smile, and a big smile is nothing but teeth.” — The Dharma Bums
“Life must be rich and full of loving — it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.” — Selected Letters, 1940-1956
“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.” — Lonesome Traveller
“The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.” — The Subterraneans
“Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.”
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Letter to Alan Harrington, 1949
“Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.” — Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” — On the Road
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A única realidade para mim são as minhas sensações. Eu sou uma sensação minha. Portanto nem da minha própria existência estou certo. Posso está-lo apenas daquelas sensações a que eu chamo minhas.
A verdade? É uma coisa exterior? Não posso ter a certeza dela, porque não é uma sensação minha, e eu só destas tenho a certeza. (…)
Procurar o sonho é pois procurar a verdade, visto que a única verdade para mim, sou eu próprio. Isolar-se tanto quanto possível dos outros é respeitar a verdade.
(Fuente: arquivopessoa.net)
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(vía jamon)
“…tal vez hemos tomado un camino que lleva a unas vidas mecánicas y obsesionadas por sí mismas donde cada acontecimiento es reducido a palabras y ángulos de cámara. Cada momento se imagina a través de la lente de un director de fotografía. Cada comentario gracioso o triste es apuntado para venderlo a la menor oportunidad.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Error Humano (Stranger than fiction)