☀ "summer afternoon-/impatiently chewing/the jasmine leaf" ✏ (kerouac)

☀ "and so everything eventually marvelous" ✏ (kerouac)

☀ "forgot in cruel happiness/that even lovers drown" ✏ (yeats)

☀ "the 4 inevitabilities: 1) musty books; 2) uninteresting nature; 3) dull existence; 4) blank nirvana" ✏ (kerouac)

☀ "it is the mind & it is the mind that will show the way out of the blurred confusion of the world of the senses, out of the eternal seesaw b/t lust & despair" ✏ (hesse)

☀ "a lover who sacrifices himself at that threshold dies of ecstasy using fate as a pretext" ✏ (memoirs of jahangir)

☀ "50 more shocks will never return yr soul to its body again from its pilgrimage to a cross in the void" ✏ (ginsberg)

☀ "the tornado spins & if u can grab ur shoes as they go by, ur doing well" ✏ (mould)

☀ "everything is more beautiful / because we are doomed" ✏ (homer)

☀ “those who do not want to imitate anything / produce nothing” ✏ (dalí)

☀ "inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist" ✏ (carlin)

☀ "everybody has the roots of greatness & evil in them" ✏ (albini)

☀ "personal purifying is the beginning of everything" ✏ (mackaye)

☀ "...writing down these fantastic inanities actually but yet i felt i had to do it bc james joyce wasnt about to do it now he was dead" ✏ (kerouac)

☀ "on the top of the world / or in the depths of despair" ✏ (goethe)

☀ "the morning road air was like a new dress" ✏ (hurston)

☀ "from now on until death she was going to have flowerdust & springtime sprinkled over everything... a bee for her bloom. her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made & said to fit them..." ✏ (zhurston)

☀ "paper is more patient than man" ✏ (frank)

☀ "the bed is turned down as quickly as possible & the temptation is removed. do you know what mummy calls this sort of thing? ..."the Art of Living" ✏ (frank)

☀ "pure in body, pure in soul" ✏ (frank)

☀ "together we could drive away your loneliness... & mine!" ✏ (frank)

☀ "alone i faced the difficult task of changing myself, to stop the everlasting reproaches, which were so oppressive & reduced me to such despondency" ✏ (frank)

☀ "above all, i must maintain my outward reserve, no one must know that war still reigns incessantly within: war between desire & common sense" ✏ (frank)

☀ "god has not left me alone & will not leave me alone" ✏ (frank)

☀ "...so i go on again with fresh courage" ✏ (frank)

☀ "quite honestly, i can't imagine how anyone can say, 'i'm weak' & then remain so. after all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? the answer is: 'because it's so much easier not to!' this reply rather discourages me. easy? does that mean that a lazy, deceitful life is an easy life? oh, no--that can't be true, mustn't be true--people can be so easily tempted by slackness" ✏ (frank)

☀ "it isn't the fear of god but the upholding of one's own honor & conscience... how noble & good everyone could be if every evening before falling asleep they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day & consider exactly what has been good and bad. then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. anyone can do this, it costs nothing & is certainly very helpful. whoever doesn't know must learn & find experience that: a quiet conscience makes one strong." ✏ (frank)

☀ "each night i am reluctant to close up because there may be some one who needs the cafe" ✏ (hemingway)

☀ "...with all those who do not want to go to bed... with all those who need a light for the night..." ✏ (hemingway)

☀ "it was the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean & pleasant. you do not want music (certainly you do not want music). nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. what did he fear? it was not a fear or dread, it was a nothing that he knew too well. it was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. it was only that & light was all it needed and a certain cleanness & order... some lived in it & never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y naday pues nada... our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada... give us this nada our daily nada & nada us our nada as we nada our nadas & nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada... hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee ...he smiled & stood before a bar with a shining steam-pressure coffee machine." ✏ (hemingway)