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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
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You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. I'll look it up. No. With Me. At my house. Now
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The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.
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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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I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.
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So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.
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memories fall apart too.
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Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
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Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou
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You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home? No, sir, Gus said. We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.
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Love is just a shout in the void.
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I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
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weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
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Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.
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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
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When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
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The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
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