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I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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All salvation is temporary, Augustus shot back. I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.
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