"Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?"
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"What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men."
"If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering"
"Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy."
"Reason is immortal, all else mortal."
"Every mortal loss is an immortal gain."
"Wisdom married to immortal verse."
"Books are immortal sons deifying their sires."
"When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal."
"My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out."
"If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal."
"Compared with me, a tree is immortal."
"You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!"
"IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity."
"Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature."
"You're immortal as long as you live."
"Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him."
"Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods."
"You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!"
"I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet."
"Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!"