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- The grandest mountain prospect that the eye can range over is appointed to annihilation. The smallest human interest that the pure heart can feel is appointed to immortality.
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
(Stephen King, "Hearts in Atlantis")
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- They're strong, they're fast, and the kill without mercy or hesitation. They're immortal, too-which kind of makes them a bitch to destroy.
(Richelle Mead, "Frostbite")
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- It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
(Mark Z. Danielewski, "House of Leaves")
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- To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
(Jorge Luis Borges, "Collected Fictions")
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- Yossarian marveled that children could suffer such barbaric sacrifice without evincing the slightest hint of fear or pain. He took for granted that they did submit so stoically. If not, he reasoned, the custom would certainly have died, for no craving for wealth or immortality could be so great, he felt, as to subsist on the sorrow of children.
(Joseph Heller, "Catch-22")
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- The faery lords are immortal. Those who have songs ballads and stories written about them never die. Belief worship imagination we were born of the dreams and fears of mortals and if we are remembered even in some small way we will always exist.
(Julie Kagawa, "The Iron King")
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- But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
(J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire")
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- By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
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- Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
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- Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will talk of socialism or anarchy, of the transformation of all humanity on a new pattern, which all comes to the same thing, they're the same questions turned inside out.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
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- There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
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- Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.
(George Orwell, "1984")
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- You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.
(George Orwell, "1984")
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- 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.
(E.M. Forster, "A Passage to India")
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