Allison Semke
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Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living.
“We agreed to love each other madly.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
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