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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

John Green

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
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
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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Battle Mischief War Win
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
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Except Philosophy Survival
Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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Hard Time Inspirational Worry
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
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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Help Hurt Universe
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
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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Book Business Done Reading Writing
Life works best when we think of people as people.
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Life One Liner People Thinking Work
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
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
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
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Human Leaving One Liner Scars
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
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
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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Infinite One Liner
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
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Forgiveness Suffering
She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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Love Mystery She
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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Love People Perfection Person Positive Worth
It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Expectation Look People Stupidity
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 measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Friendship Measure Physical Significance
Crying is you, plus tears.
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Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

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