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1. black
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

John Green

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  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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  Without pain, how could we know joy?

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  We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

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  The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

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  I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

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

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  You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

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  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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  We just did an awesome job of not dying.

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  Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.

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  I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.

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  What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

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  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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  Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

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  Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.

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  I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

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  It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

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  The good times and the bad times both will pass.

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  Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

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  Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.

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  Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.

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  I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

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  The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

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