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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Augustus Waters, I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.
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