What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREENYour responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
More John Green Quotes
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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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.
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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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.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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