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Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead
-H. L. Mencken
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Immortality Is The Condition Of A Dead

H. L. Mencken
Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead
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Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! was it some jolly burgher of nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—love! immortality!
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And because the condition of man, (as hath been declared in the precedent chapter) is a condition of warre of every one against everyone; in which case every one is governed by his own reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; it followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a right to every thing; even to one anothers body.
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The outrage was on the scale of god. my younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... and the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.
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If god bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his lordship think that god gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? it is a hard saying, and i think cannot piously be believed. i am sure it can never be proved by the canonical scripture.
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