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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
Sigmund Freud
2.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Norman Cousins
3.
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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
Herman Melville
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Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead
H. L. Mencken
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Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
Francis I of France
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I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.
Mark Jason Dominus
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Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
Brandon Lee
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
James Dean
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
Sydney J. Harris
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
Sappho
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There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.
George S. Patton
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Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.
Bruce R. McConkie
18.
This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
Denis Johnson
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato
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If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
Thomas Beecham
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Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
Charles Spurgeon
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The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.
Orestes Brownson
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I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
Egon Schiele
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It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
Otto Weininger
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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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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz Kafka
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Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.
Multatuli
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Mel Brooks
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
35.
I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
Ray Charles
36.
I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.
Lu Tong
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Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.
Colin Jordan
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Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.
Carl Sandburg
40.
I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
Judy Chicago
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Pindar
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
Karl Kraus
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One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
Homer
45.
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
Novalis
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Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
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If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
Frank Herbert
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You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
Ernest Dimnet
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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.
Aristotle