One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.H. P. Lovecraft
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The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.Blaise Pascal
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.A. A. Milne
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Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.Robin S. Sharma
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.Marshall McLuhan
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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.Henry Van Dyke
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.Edgar Lee Masters
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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.Hu Shih
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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
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Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.Tim Ferriss
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.Clarence Darrow
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What do I mean when I say 'suspended animation'? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can wake up again without being harmed. OK, so here is the sort of big idea: If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.Mark Roth
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When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.Ernest Hemingway
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.Abraham Lincoln
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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.Emily Dickinson
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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.Norman Cousins
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Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.Rudolf Steiner
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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.Edsger Dijkstra
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.Charles Baudelaire
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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.Walter Gropius
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.Joseph Addison
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.John Kenneth Galbraith
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Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.Sylvester Stallone
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.Albert Einstein
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.Susan Ertz
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.Woody Allen
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.James Joyce
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God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life.Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.Ernest Hemingway
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.Isaac Asimov
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.Alexander Chase
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