My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think. Gary Shteyngart
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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Mitch Albom
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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Antonio Porchia
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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H. Rider Haggard
... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Susan Ertz
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
More Quotes By Gary Shteyngart
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>. Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer...
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the...
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.
