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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything. — Jack Kerouac

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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything.

Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums · 1958
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Nothing to proveSelf-acceptanceKindness
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Advice
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Novel
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1958
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Jack Kerouac
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Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958, ch. 11.

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