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The world is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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City Finding Freedom People Sin Thinking Tourist
I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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Beautiful Decision Enjoyment Existence Myself People Pleasure
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Love One Liner Promise
The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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Future Nostalgia One Liner
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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Cry Devote Life Love People Try
They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Enough Hairs Interesting Love Smart
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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Battle Mischief War Win
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
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Life People
Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Joy Life One Liner Pain
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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Attitude Funny Nice Smart
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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Awful Feeling Person Realize Shock Strange World
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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Choose Compose Infinite Live Moments Spend
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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Father
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Human Powerful Tongue
Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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Afraid Hurt Love Matter
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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Broken Heart Person Understand Unhappy
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
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Advertisement Affection Betrayal Book Feeling Rare Special
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
It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Expectation Look People Stupidity
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Fear Graduation Secret Weapon
Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Live Music People
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
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
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

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