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John Green

"In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible."

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"In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible."

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"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."

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"The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life."

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"We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding."

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"It doesn't matter how long you live on planet earth, if by the time your whole life has evaporated, you have not solved the problems you were created to solve, then you wasted your life."

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"If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance."

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"To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn't just melt away like Salvador Dali's melting clock."

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"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."

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"If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or for some salary, you are re-investing it into yourself. You are multiplying the quality of your life."

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"Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me."

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"The destiny of future generations depends on our actions today."

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"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
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"Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
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"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die."
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"I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with."
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