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JOHN GREENThe urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
More John Green Quotes
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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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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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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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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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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