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It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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I think of friendship in terms of love.
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Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.
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We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.
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Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?
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The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.
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He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.
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But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.
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They don’t have silences together they have noise. Mostly his.
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Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.
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It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.
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I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.
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tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.
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