The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
JOHN GREENBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
More John Green Quotes
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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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.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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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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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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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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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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