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The air was always better when the world was sleeping. It made it easier to breathe.
“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
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“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”
― Uglies
― Uglies
“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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