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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.

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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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Easy Forget Imagination People World
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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City Finding Freedom People Sin Thinking Tourist
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Human Powerful Tongue
It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Break Up Leaving World
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Life People
Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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Alone Introvert Profession Writing
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Alone Forgiveness Help Love
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
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
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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Book Business Done Reading Writing
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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Love People Perfection Person Positive Worth
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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Screw She Time
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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Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
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
I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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Die Inspirational One Liner Smart Young
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.
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Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
Depression is a side effect of dying.
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Depression Die One Liner
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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Love Survival
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Abundance Happen Remember
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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Father
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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Broken Crazy Hope One Liner Positive World
We all use the future to escape the present.
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Escape Future One Liner Present

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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