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Jean Giraudoux

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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

 
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We are the earth his word must sow like wheat
And, if it finds no earth, it cannot grow.
We are his earth, the mortal and the dying,
Led by no star — the sullen and the slut,
The thief, the selfish man, the barren woman,
Who have betrayed him once and will betray him,
Forget his words, be great a moment's space
Under the strokes of chance,
And then sink back into our small affairs.
And yet, unless we go, his message fails.

 
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How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.
Out of the transient encounter of contrary forces which constitute your existence, strive to create whatever immortal thing a mortal may create in this world — a Cry.
And this Cry, abandoning to the earth the body which gave it birth, proceeds and labors eternally.

 
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Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

 
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'Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.

 
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

 
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