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“Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Wouldn’t it be great to stop, if only for a minute on a regular basis, and reflect on how wonderful everything is?”
― Buddhist Boot Camp
― Buddhist Boot Camp
“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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Elysia’s 2024 Year in Books
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