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• The first requisite for immortality is death.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Firsts

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• If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Laughter, Mistake, Humorous

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1975.

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Spiritual, Increase, Used

  "Dianetics And Scientology Technical Dictionary". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1987 edition, p. 370,

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• The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Ambition, Mean

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• We feel and know that we are eternal.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Awareness, Reincarnation

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

  Plato

  Men, Soul, Revolution Founding Fathers

  Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.506, GENERAL PRESS

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• If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dry Up, Continuation Of Life, Literature

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• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, God, Dream

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  Damien Hirst

  Immortal, Term, Desirable

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• May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  May, Satisfied

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.236

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• I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  Quoted in Eric Lax, Woody Allen and His Comedy (1975)

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• He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

  Joseph Heller

  Retirement, Funny Life, Farewell

  Catch-22 ch. 3 (1961)

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• There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Way

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.73, eKitap Projesi

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• To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Art, Escaping

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 231), 1963.

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• I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

  Bobby Sands

  People, Dying, Republic

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

  Julie Andrews

  Art, Forever, Soul

  "Fictional character: Catherine". "One Special Night", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

  Robert Genn

  Tombstone, Years, Lasts

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• The temple is concerned with things of immortality. It is a bridge between this life and the next. All of the ordinances that take place in the house of the Lord are expressions of our belief in the immortality of the human soul.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Expression, Bridges, House

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• The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

  Mason Cooley

  Soul, Comfort, Doctrine

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• Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Believe, Eye, Eagles

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.364

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• Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sad, Gratitude, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI (2007). “John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor”

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• My life closed twice before its close;
  It yet remains to see
  If Immortality unveil
  A third event to me,
  So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
  As these that twice befell.
  Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Encouragement, Heaven

  "My life closed twice before its close" l. 7 (unknown date)

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• Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.

  William James

  Plans, Ifs, Lays

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 3 (1902)

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• The only greatness for man is immortality.

  James Dean

  Greatness, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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