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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.

John Green

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

Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Friendship Measure Physical Significance
Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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Die Enjoyment Smoke
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
JOHN GREEN

Forgiveness Suffering
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
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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Book Reading
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREEN

Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREEN

Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
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.
JOHN GREEN

Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Human Powerful Tongue
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
JOHN GREEN

Awful Feeling Person Realize Shock Strange World
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
JOHN GREEN

Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN

Busy Ideas Yourself
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN

Busy Ideas Yourself
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREEN

Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
JOHN GREEN

Calculation Determination Insult Shit
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
JOHN GREEN

Love One Liner Promise
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Memories Paper Town
If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
JOHN GREEN

Business Happen Imagination Inspirational
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
JOHN GREEN

Book Help Understand
Crying is you, plus tears.
JOHN GREEN

Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears
Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
JOHN GREEN

Broken Heart Hurt People Promise Understand
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
JOHN GREEN

Book Forever Love Reading Wait
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREEN

Advertisement Affection Betrayal Book Feeling Rare Special
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
JOHN GREEN

Book Business Done Reading Writing
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
JOHN GREEN

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

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing

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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