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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

John Green

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
JOHN GREEN

Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
JOHN GREEN

Love People Perfection Person Positive Worth
God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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God Karma
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
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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Awful Feeling Person Realize Shock Strange World
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Human Leaving One Liner Scars
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Live Music People
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Algorithm Book Invention
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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Couple Fall Fall In Love Love Reading Sleep
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

Art Complete Ill Philosophy Sick Urge
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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Help Hurt Universe
The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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Change One Liner Struggle Time
Life works best when we think of people as people.
JOHN GREEN

Life One Liner People Thinking Work
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
JOHN GREEN

Book Die Life Sentence Truth

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

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