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“There are things known
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”
― Letters from Joe
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”
― Letters from Joe
“Ones own soul, and the passions of one’s friends—those were the fascinating things in life.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
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