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If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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What can we do? Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.
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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will, she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Yeah, that's true, I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
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We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?
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Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last the last shall be first the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
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I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
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I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.
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People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.
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And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.
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Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
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That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?
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It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
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