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The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.
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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
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She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
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Augustus, I said. Really. You don't have to do this. Sure I do, he said. I found my Wish. God, you're the best, I told him. I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel, he answered.
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She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.
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...And in freedom, most people find sin.
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