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• Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, Sadness, People

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Men, Talking, Heaven

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Symphony, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 339, 1895.

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• We want to live forever, and we're getting there.

  William J. Clinton

  Forever, Want, Live Forever

  William J. Clinton (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1761, Government Printing Office

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• The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

  Horace

  Heaven, Doe, Praise

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• If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Men, If There Is A God, Certain

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• No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Energy Of Life, Soul, Battle

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.129

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• We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

  Saint Augustine

  Dying, Use, Might

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• Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Men, Names, Mind

  Giorgio Vasari (1993). “Lives of the Artists”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Principles, Patterns, Eternal

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.379, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

  Franz Kafka

  Tomorrow, Ifs

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Knows, Quotations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Needs, Immortal

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

  Heraclitus

  Death, Dying, Immortal Life

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• No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Country

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 15), translated, 45 BC.

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• I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

  George MacDonald

  Gaps, Middle

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.4585, e-artnow

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• The first condition of immortality is death.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Firsts, Oxymoron

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• Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Winning, Men

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life is the childhood of our immortality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Godly, Childhood

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• For love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Romantic, Romance

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

  Ray Charles

  Want, Mark, Behinds

  "Words of the Week", Jet magazine, Vol. 64, No. 6, p. 40, April 25, 1983.

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• People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, People, Bored

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• For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

  William James

  Men, Immortal Life, Life Is

  "Essays in Psychical Research".

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• I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.

  Judith Weir

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

  Socrates

  Men, People, Greek

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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