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“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existence is prior to essence.”
― Sartre Jean-Paul

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...”
― Jack Kerouac

“I stood in the middle of the room flipping and Pusher was plucking at the guitar, just one string, and I went up to him and said, 'Man don't pluck those dirty notes at ME,' and like he just got up without a word and left. [Mardou]”
― Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans

“Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??”
― Jack Kerouac

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.”
― Kerouac, Jack

“Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.”
― Jack Kerouac

“the road is life”
― jack kerouac

“L'enfer, c'est les autres.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.”
― Jack Kerouac

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”
― Jack Kerouac

“a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth”
― Jack Kerouac

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac