Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to u…

John Green
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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. ✨ John Green (2010). Paper Towns, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing
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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. ✨ John Green (2010). Paper Towns, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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