The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minima…

John Green
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The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think they'll remember me now, but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. ✨ The Fault in Our Stars. Book by John Green, 2012.
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