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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
― Steve Jobs

“Un minuto de silencio por todas esas cosas que nunca serán. Que nunca harás. Un minuto de silencio por los cobardes.”
― Chris Pueyo, El chico de las estrellas

“Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.”
― Casey Neistat

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“A while back, my brain started playing a game similar to the why game. This one is called What's Even The Point.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Somos lo que hacemos, pero somos, principalmente, lo que hacemos para cambiar lo que somos.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Was trying with every party to re-create the easy, thoughtless companionship they had once had, when their professional identities were still foggy to them and they were united by their aspirations instead of divided by their daily realities.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life