I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they never held for a single moment? But Howard- one can imagine him living forever. . Ayn Rand
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What you are. This is a quote from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption." It's a great quote to keep in mind when people are talking about how they would like to live forever. There are many people who want to live forever in this way, including people who are in prison. The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about redemption, and that's something that everyone can relate to.

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