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In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.


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In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
JOHN FOWLES What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
JOHN GREEN I'm a roller coaster that only foes up.
- THE FAULT IN OUR STARS JOHN GREEN Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...
JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c...
JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little...
JOHN GREEN I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time ...
JOHN GREEN My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I...
JOHN GREEN He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.
JOHN GREEN I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
JOHN GREEN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or no...
JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward conscio...
JOHN GREEN Even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncrea...
JOHN GREEN …iubirea mea, nu-ți pot spune cât de recunoscătoare sunt pentru mica noastră infinitate. N-aș...
JOHN GREEN It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can e...
JOHN FOWLES The End is Nigh!" the man shouted.
"Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked.
T...
JANA OLIVER It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and di...
JOHN GREEN As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
JOHN GREEN And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...
JOHN GREEN I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevole...
JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the con...
JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h...
JOHN GREEN As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart ...
JOHN GREEN I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody c...
JOHN GREEN The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet a...
JOHN GREEN Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
JOHN GREEN All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said
JOHN GREEN It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes
JOHN GREEN Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.
JOHN GREEN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN I love you present tense.
JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ...
JOHN GREEN It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty
percent survival rate and he’s ...
JOHN GREEN ...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up...
JOHN GREEN Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as ...
JOHN GREEN Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around ...
JOHN GREEN This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore
JOHN GREEN —¿Qué más? Ella es tan hermosa. No te cansas de verla. Nunca te preocupas si es más inteligent...
JOHN GREEN There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just ano...
JOHN GREEN Some infinites are longer than other infinites
JOHN GREEN what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- ...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark
AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
EMMA CHASE The end of this world looks closer
in eyes of them who want to repent.
TOBA BETA It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.
LEONARD COHEN The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster!
ISAAC ASIMOV She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-fo...
DEAN KOONTZ Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally ...
PAUL BOWLES Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
HERGé If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
BILL WATTERSON I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and w...
L.M. MONTGOMERY To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure...
ANDREW LANG At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
JOHN GREEN but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
JOHN GREEN El pasado es una historia lógica. Es el sentido de lo que sucedió. Pero como el futuro todavía no...
JOHN GREEN Kau bisa melihat masa depan kalau kau punya pemahaman dasar tentang bagaimana orang akan bersikap
JOHN GREEN Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata
JOHN GREEN And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absenc...
JOHN GREEN Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But ...
JOHN GREEN Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could sta...
JOHN GREEN My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Who will be left at the end of the day?
The answer is, no one!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG The glory of the cross is bound up with the effectiveness of its accomplishment.
JOHN MURRAY Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
JOHN GREEN Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus,"I said.
"I am," he said. He was st...
JOHN GREEN ...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that adv...
JOHN GREEN And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side ef...
JOHN GREEN I know you,” said Maddy. “You’re -“
“What’s a name?” Loki grinned. “Wear it lik...
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JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP