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"When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again."
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"Man will find his own structured words,which will transfigure his into immortal."
"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
"Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs."
"Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn't anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept-the world aged, moved forward, yet I . . . didn't."
"When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind."
"If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality."
"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
"If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement."
"Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?"
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
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"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."
"One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen."
"When you stopped believing in God,' he went on, 'did you stop believing in good and evil?''No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels."
"We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down."
"You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got."
"Who are you?' the woman said at last.'Lyra Silver-''No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?' Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand."
"I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel, she continued. 'Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse-to be tortured forever-I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?"
"If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight."
"What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose."
"Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all, it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction."
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