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

John Green

You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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Love Survival
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
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Break Up Broken Heart Happen Hurt Imagination Life
If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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Business Happen Imagination Inspirational
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
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
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
There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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Die Glory Honor Ill
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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Book Business Done Reading Writing
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’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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Help Hurt Universe
It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Expectation Look People Stupidity
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
Crying is you, plus tears.
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Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears

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

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