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And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

— Jack Kerouac Desolation Angels (1965)

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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

Book of Dreams (1961)

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

On the Road (1957)

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Pomes All Sizes (1992)

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

Visions of Gerard (1963)

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

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