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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

John Green

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
Crying is you, plus tears.
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Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears
The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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Change One Liner Struggle Time
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
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Book Die Life Sentence Truth
It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Expectation Look People Stupidity
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Factory World
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.
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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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Humour Run Smoke
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
Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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Die Enjoyment Smoke
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
Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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Broken Heart Hurt People Promise Understand
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Human Powerful Tongue
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
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself

What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

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