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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and ...more

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

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I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

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You can’t burn down a made-up place.

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He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to...more

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Jesus, why would he hook up with Becca?" "Well, she's not known for her personality or generosity of spirit, so it's probably because she's hot." "She...more

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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

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Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly

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We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.

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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

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Imagine others complexly.

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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

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If you dont' live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good.

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It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might ...more