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Immortality's (n.) desire ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is the desire for the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.

Immortality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠indestructible and yet has no endurance — because your life is in time and your immortality in eternity.

Immortality (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a work requires so many excellences that no single reader grasps them all, so that each age discovers a different one and the interest is never exhausted.

Immortality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠pledged by the lover's longing: it is the immortal part of him that yearns for her; only the mortal part longs for everything else.

Immortality (n.) belongs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only to what has not arisen: the uncreated is imperishable, the created is necessarily perishable, and no ancient dreamed of infinite permanence for a being that had begun.

Immortality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not the endless continuance of the individual: death destroys the illusion that separates his consciousness from that of the rest — this is immortality.