"Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on."
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"I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it."
"Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever."
"Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever."
"Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever."
"If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live."
"I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!"
"Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever."
"I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever."
"If you can affect someone when they're young, you are in their heart forever."
"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
"Even nothing cannot last forever."
"Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we want to go into space. That's the new high ground, right? We care about multispectral imaging of things. Well, that's what reconnaissance wants to do. So our expertise has been in bed with national security needs forever. So maybe, secretly, that's why they keep us employed."
"Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change."
"Life is short, but art lives forever."
"Only the dead stay seventeen forever."
"Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever."
"Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake."
"LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever."
"It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge."