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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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"Man will find his own structured words,which will transfigure his into immortal."
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"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
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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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"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
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"Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs."
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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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"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
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"If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement."
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"The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death."
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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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"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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"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
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"As the Self [Pure Soul], one never dies; it is only the beliefs that die."
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"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."
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"Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!"
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"And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous time that eats our lives away. Then let that morning come, as come it will, When this disguise I carry shall be no more, And all the treacherous years of life undone, And yet my name shall rise to heavenly music, The deathless music of the circling stars. As long as Rome is the Eternal City These lines shall echo from the lips of men, As long as poetry speaks truth on earth, That immortality is mine to wear."
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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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"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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"The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality."
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"When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again."
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"Our love is immortal. We have become a love story. I siphoned the moments from my heart and soul, and I have inked them into beautifully bound pages. We live on for another generation to try and understand how the beauty of love can turn into ugly reality."
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"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."
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"Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless.She knew she was immortal."
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"When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind."
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