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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

John Green

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
Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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Pain Poetry Rain Soul
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Number Valentine
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
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
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Factory World
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
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
Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Oppression Stand
The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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Future Nostalgia One Liner
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Gift People Responsiblity
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
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
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
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
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Life People
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
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
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
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Human Leaving One Liner Scars
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
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Love One Liner Promise
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Believe Destruction Ourselves
They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Enough Hairs Interesting Love Smart
Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Live Music People

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