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Irvin D. Yalom _ Love's Executioner and Other
To lose a parent or a lifelong friend is often to lose the past: the person who died may be the only other living witness to golden events of long ago. But to lose a child is to lose the future: what is lost is no less than one's life project-what one lives for, how one projects oneself into the future, how one may hope to transcend death {indeed, one's child becomes one's immortality project}.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Edmund Spenser _ Amoretti and Epithalamion
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man {said she} that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so {quod I}; let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.
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John Fowles _ The Magus
Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.
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Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio
She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.
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Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
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Gregory Maguire _ A Lion Among Men
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
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E.R. Eddison _ The Worm Ouroboros
Drunkenness is better for the body than physic! Drink always, and you shall never die!
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Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Thorns and Roses
Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don't hold on to power by being everyone's friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We're too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.
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Hermann Hesse _ Narcissus and Goldmund
I saw that something remained of the fools' play, the death dance of human life, something lasting: works of art. They too will probably perish some day; they'll burn or crumble or be destroyed. Still, they outlast many human lives; they form a silent empire of images and relics beyond the fleeting moment. To work at that seems good and comforting to me, because it almost succeeds in making the transitory eternal.
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Hermann Hesse _ Steppenwolf
Das verzweifelte Nichtsterbenwollen ist der sicherste Weg zum ewigen Tode, während Sterbenkönnen, Hüllenabstreifen, ewige Hingabe des Ichs an die Wandlung führt zur Unsterblichkeit.
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