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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
Immortality

"Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!"

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Immortality

"It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Immortality

"The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
Immortality

"But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality."

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