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JOHN GREENThe future is a kind of nostalgia.
More John Green Quotes
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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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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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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.
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