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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.

John Green

It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Expectation Look People Stupidity
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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Father
You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Love Missing People
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
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
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
Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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Attitude Funny Nice Smart
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
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
Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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Die Enjoyment Smoke
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Believe Couple Person Special
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Forgiveness Suffering
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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Book Forever Love Reading Wait
Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Oppression Stand
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Fault Stars
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Believe Destruction Ourselves
The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Fear Graduation Secret Weapon
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Factory World
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
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
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
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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Cry Devote Life Love People Try
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege

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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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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