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"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
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"Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!"

"When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality."

"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."

"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."

"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."

"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."

"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."

"Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon for man's offenceTo heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,And where the river of bliss through midst of heavenRolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:With these that never fade the spirits electBind their resplendent locks."
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"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."

"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."

"But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence."

"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something."

"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live."
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