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"The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old."
"We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything."
"To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake"
"I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead."
"If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal."
"Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal."
"Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death."
"I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?"
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
"immortality is a terrible curse."
"Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality."
"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
"The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality."
"IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity."
"You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality."
"Lay plans as if we were to be immortal."
"I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
"Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love."
"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."
"You lose your immortality when you lose your memory."
