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Quote by Jack Kerouac
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to l

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. – Jack Kerouac

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. – Jack Kerouac

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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. – Jack Kerouac

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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. – Aesop

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But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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