You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
More John Green Quotes
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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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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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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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 figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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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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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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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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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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