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De Profundis
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John Green
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Françoise Sagan
“There are certain moments of perfect happiness — often moments of utter solitude — which, when recalled in life’s bitterer periods, can save one from despair, even more so than the memory of times spent with friends, for one knows that one was happy all alone, for no clear reason.”
Françoise Sagan, That Mad Ache: A Novel

Françoise Sagan
“Il y a des moments de bonheur parfait, quelquefois dans la solitude dont le souvenir, plus que celui de n’importe qui d’extérieur, peut, en cas de crise, vous sauver du désespoir. Car on sait qu’on a été heureux seul et sans raison. On sait que c’est possible. Et le bonheur – qui vous semble si lié à quelqu’un lorsqu’on est malheureux par lui, si irrévocablement, organiquement presque, dépendant de lui – vous réapparaît comme une chose lisse, ronde, intacte et à jamais libre, à votre merci (lointaine, bien sûr, mais forcément possible). Et ce souvenir est plus réconfortant que celui d’un bonheur partagé avant, avec quelqu’un d’autre, car ce quelqu’un d’autre, ne l’aimant plus, vous apparaît comme une erreur et ce souvenir heureux basé sur rien.”
Françoise Sagan, LA Chamade

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