Quote by Jack Kerouac
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, e

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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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. – Jack Kerouac

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Mankind is like dogs, not gods – as long as you dont get mad theyll bite you – but stay mad and youll never be bitten. Dogs dont respect humility and sorrow. – Jack Kerouac

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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known… then went crazy as a loon. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson

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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. – Ruth Stout

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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. – Arthur Brisbane

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To Live signifies to believe and hope – to lie and to lie to oneself. – Emile M. Cioran

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A man is known by the company he organizes. – Ambrose Bierce

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