“The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.”

—  Jack Kerouac , book On the Road

Part Two, Ch. 4
On the Road (1957)

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