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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.
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It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
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The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
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Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.
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it is the nature of stars to cross
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We all romanticize the people we adore.
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I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?
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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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Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.
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I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
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I spy with my little eye a great story.
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