After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

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"Will you love me in December as you do in May?"

- Jack Kerouac

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"The only truth is music."

- Jack Kerouac

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"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."

- Jack Kerouac

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"One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple."

- Jack Kerouac

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"There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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