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“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
― Jack Kerouac

“My witness is the empty sky.”
― Jack Kerouac

“It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“Rocks are space, and space is illusion.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“Accept loss forever.
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― Jack Kerouac

“The unspeakable visions of the individual.”
― Jack Kerouac

“equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath