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Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

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I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards...more

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That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told....more

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But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.

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Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

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You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

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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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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think t...more

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...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the...more

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always felt like the Katherines dump me right...more

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I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

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The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.