I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just d…

Jack Kerouac
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I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road, Viking Press
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