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

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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
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
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
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
It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Break Up Leaving World
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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Enough Hard Time Money Stuff
Crying is you, plus tears.
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Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Gift People Responsiblity
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Life People
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
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
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
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
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Human Powerful Tongue

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

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