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John Green

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
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
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
Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Joy Life One Liner Pain
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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Couple Fall Fall In Love Love Reading Sleep
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
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
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
The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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Change One Liner Struggle Time
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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College Graduation People Stupidity
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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Calculation Determination Insult Shit
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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Choose Compose Infinite Live Moments Spend
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Love One Liner Promise
They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Enough Hairs Interesting Love Smart
Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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Alone Introvert Profession Writing
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 figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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Future Humour Unpredictable
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
Everything that comes together falls apart.
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Break Up Broken Heart Fall One Liner Togetherness
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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Broken Crazy Hope One Liner Positive World
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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Hard Time Inspirational Worry
The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Friendship Measure Physical Significance
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Fault Stars
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Except Philosophy Survival
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Abundance Happen Remember

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