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It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed.… — Leonard Maltin
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is… — Marquis de Sade
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more,… — John Keats
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. — Heraclitus
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what… — Susan Sontag
Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of… — Janet Morris
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out… — Winston Churchill
Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal… — Colin Thubron
I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type.… — Erik Spiekermann
My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight. — Matt Czuchry
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. — Patti Smith
Whenever we choose to come unto Christ, take His name upon us, and follow His servants, we progress along the path to eternal life. In… — Robert D. Hales
The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche.… — Gertrud von Le Fort
What we feel is mortal, and won't come again. — Unknown Author
The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who anxiously desire to… — Melvin J. Ballard
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and… — Edith Wharton
Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it… — Orson Scott Card
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly… — Henry Fielding
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going… — Lana Del Rey
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which… — Hannah Arendt
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy… — Petrarch

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