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“All right. Then I'll begin... It's the tale of a man who drank the demon's liquor and gained immortality. That miserable man's lonely, lonely yarn. The stage is Prohibition-era New York. It's the s...”
“The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that youll eventually commit all else.”
“Now, when I look into his eyes, I don't see death - but eternity. For the first time in my life, I am looking into someone's gaze and realizing that not only do I understand what's in his eyes...he...”
“How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.”
“Does my soul sufferWhen my body breaks downWhen I feel mortalWhen my body is weakDoes the soul rejoiceThe end is near”
“Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.”
“It is an interesting concept, is it not- the idea of never aging? Would it appeal to you, to be rich, beautiful, and eternally young?""I think everyone has a desire for perennial youth," I admitted...”
“Only youth has a taste of immortality.”
“All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is ...”
“Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.”
“When the silence comes and the echoes of former life fades, what will have mattered will be, one made the world a bit better fore their de-berthing. Writing, needs none, but the initial push of hea...”
“All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.”
“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isnt a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”
“Jack gazed down at the black surface of the sea. He felt and affinity with the ocean, as if it were a kindred spirit. The knowledge that every drop of water had always been a drop of water, practic...”
“If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.”
“Time is not your enemy, forever is.”
“Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesnt believe he is dead.”
“It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that rema...”
“Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of t...”
“I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.”
