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• His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Song, Thinking, Hands

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.

  Tea Obreht

  Running, Children, Lying

  Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Winter, Leaves Of Grass

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• But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that makes it second nature for Michigan men to spread the gospel of their university to the world's distant outposts; a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Education, Loyalty, Men

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• Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

  Homer

  Eye, Rage From The Iliad, Goddess

  Homer (1996). “Homer in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, Dark, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.823, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Doors

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• Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Inspiration, Passing Away

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• I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord For I have spread the seed of the Word.

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Lord, Spread, Eternal

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• These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
  With dear companions now passed out of sight,
  Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live,
  Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride
  Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts
  Will meet the offering, of so little worth,
  Wanting the benison death has made divine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Wise, Pride

  "Poems". Book by Lucy Larcom, 1869.

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• I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

  John Donne

  Soul, Progress

  'The Progress of the Soul' (1601) st. 1

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• Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

  William James

  Dog, May, Affection

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• All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.

  Khalil

  Heart, Secret, Mind

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• Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

  Olive Schreiner

  Beautiful, Real, Soul

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Names, Long, Shining

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• If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood, the very ground of God. If you can love non-being then nothing can destroy you, you have transcended time and space. Then you have become one with the total, and this is what holiness is - to become whole is to be holy.

  Rajneesh

  Self, Space, Holiness

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• ...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm!— Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Ocean, Sky

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “An Universal Prayer ; Death ; A Vision of Heaven ; and A Vision of Hell &c. &c”, p.63

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• Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

  William Francis Henry King

  Writing, Community, Mind

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• You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Eternity, Penetration

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• And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.

  P. C. Cast

  When You Love Someone, Infatuation, Love Someone

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Beautiful, Cousin, Brother

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• Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Real, Magic, Doe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.26, Macmillan

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• You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Betrayal, Hate, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.283, Macmillan

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• It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

  George Matthew Adams

  Smart, Character, Giving

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• You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Cutting

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.178, Macmillan

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