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"I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future."

"I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity."

"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."

"How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal."

"Two forces create eternity " a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale."

"Understanding what it means to die, to sever oneself of the foolish hope for immortality, is what allows human beings the capability to appreciate simple pleasures and endure whatever hardships living a full life requires. Eternity is beautiful whereas time is unredeemable and problematic. Our faith, our hopes, and our love exist only in points of time. We discover eternity by avoiding the snares of prejudice and mental delusion, using the memory of whole civilizations to understand the past, and employing human consciousness to transcend fluctuations in time."

"When we get married, we promise a person the rest of our lives, "Til death do us part". But what if in another life we promised someone forever? What if ten lifetimes ago we promised someone lifetime after lifetime after lifetime? Think about it. Maybe that's why marriages fail when they do fail. Because maybe promises are never really broken."
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