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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

John Green

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
JOHN GREEN

Fear Graduation Secret Weapon
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
JOHN GREEN

Book Reading
Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
JOHN GREEN

Broken Heart Hurt People Promise Understand
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
JOHN GREEN

Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
JOHN GREEN

Break Up Leaving World
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
JOHN GREEN

Art Complete Ill Philosophy Sick Urge
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
JOHN GREEN

Alone Forgiveness Help Love
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
JOHN GREEN

City Finding Freedom People Sin Thinking Tourist
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREEN

Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
JOHN GREEN

Expectation Look People Stupidity
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
JOHN GREEN

College Graduation People Stupidity
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
JOHN GREEN

Memories Pleasure Remember
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
JOHN GREEN

Algorithm Book Invention
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREEN

Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREEN

Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

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