The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality
George Santayana
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RUDOLF STEINER If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
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RICHELLE E. GOODRICH That you did something bad is not enough to make you a bad person
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DEJAN STOJANOVIC Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA