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Michael Vance: “Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.”
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Thomas Alva Edison: “I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”
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Peter Ustinov: “Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. ”
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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Emily Dickinson: “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.”
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Emily Dickinson: “Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved—
The Site—of it—by Architect
Could not again be proved— 'Tis vast—as our Capacity—
As fair—as our idea—
To Him of adequate desire
No further 'tis, than Here—”
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Emily Dickinson: “What is -- ‘Paradise’ --
Who live there --
Are they ‘Farmers’ --
Do they ‘hoe’ --
Do they know that this is ‘Amherst’ --
And that I -- am coming -- too --

Do they wear ‘new shoes’ -- in ‘Eden’ --
Is it always pleasant -- there --
Won’t they scold us -- when we’re homesick --
Or tell God -- how cross we are --

You are sure there’s such a person
As ‘a Father’ -- in the sky --
So if I get lost -- there -- ever --
Or do what the Nurse calls ‘die’ --
I shan’t walk the ‘Jasper’ -- barefoot --
Ransomed folks -- won’t laugh at me --
Maybe -- ‘Eden’ a’n’t so lonesome
As New England used to be!”
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Emily Dickinson: “Why -- do they shut Me out of Heaven?
Did I sing -- too loud?
But -- I can say a little ‘Minor’
Timid as a Bird!

Wouldn't the Angels try me --
Just -- once -- more --
Just -- see -- if I troubled them --
But don't -- shut the door!

Oh, if I -- were the Gentleman
In the ‘White Robe’ --
And they -- were the little Hand -- that knocked --
Could -- I -- forbid?”
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Emily Dickinson: “Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The Carriage held but just Ourselves --
And Immortality.

We slowly drove -- He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility?

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess -- in the Ring --
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --
We passed the Setting Sun --

Or rather -- He passed Us --
The Dews drew quivering and chill --
For only Gossamer, my Gown --
My Tippet -- only Tulle --

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground --
The Roof was scarcely visible --
The Cornice -- in the Ground --

Since then -- ‘tis Centuries -- and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity -- ”
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George Bernard Shaw: “Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.”
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Amy Tan: “I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
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Albert Einstein: “I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.”
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Woody Allen: “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
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Albert Camus: “I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.”
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Susan Ertz: “Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
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Isaac Asimov: “I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”
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Algernon Black: “The love that once was born can not die
For it has become part of us, of our life,
Woven into the very texture of our being.
Each of us would wish to leave some part of ourselves,
So here and now we bear witness to the one we knew in life,
Who now in death bequeaths a subtle part, precious and beloved,
Which will be with us in truth and beauty,
In dignity and courage and love
To the end of our days.”
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Harriet Martineau: “We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.”
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