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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

John Green

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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Love Mystery She
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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College Graduation People Stupidity
They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Enough Hairs Interesting Love Smart
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Algorithm Book Invention
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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Art Complete Ill Philosophy Sick Urge
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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Easy Forget Imagination People World
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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Broken Heart Person Understand Unhappy
The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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Future Nostalgia One Liner
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
JOHN GREEN

Believe Destruction Ourselves
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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Book Reading
Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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Die Enjoyment Smoke
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
JOHN GREEN

Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREEN

Gift People Responsiblity

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

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