“There will come a time, when all of
us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings
remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species did
anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let
alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and
discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that
time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we
survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time
before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And
if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore
it. God knows what everyone else does.” -
The Fault in Our
Stars by John Green
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