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"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
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"Hmph. Yes. Him. He had the nerve to turn down our offer of immortality and tell us to pay better attention to our children. Er, no offense. "Oh, how could I take offense? Please, go on ignoring me."
"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."
"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
"As the Self [Pure Soul], one never dies; it is only the beliefs that die."
"Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!"
"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?"
"Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs."
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption."
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"Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents."
"So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste."
"He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others."
"Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not, the whole point of conversations was flow."
"O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!"
"Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character."
"When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it."
"What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?"
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