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

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
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Fault Stars
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Memories Paper Town
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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Memories Pleasure Remember
Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Joy Life One Liner Pain
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Human Powerful Tongue
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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Book Forever Love Reading Wait
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
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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Broken Heart Person Understand Unhappy
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Number Valentine
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
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
We all use the future to escape the present.
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Escape Future One Liner Present
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

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

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