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Immortality Quotes
"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."
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"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
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"And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita."
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"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."
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"Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs."
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"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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"If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement."
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"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
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"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
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"Man will find his own structured words,which will transfigure his into immortal."
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"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
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"As the Self [Pure Soul], one never dies; it is only the beliefs that die."
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"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
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"The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death."
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"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?"
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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."
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"If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death..."
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"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
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"Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!"
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"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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