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immortal
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Interview with the Vampire
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- And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their tangibility promised to us, wrongly ....wrongly, an immortality.†
Part 1immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- But you must have all the things you never had of life and make of immortality a junk shop in which both of us become grotesque.†
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- We are immortal.†
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- You're the only companion I have in immortality.'†
Part 1immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- 'You gave m your immortal kiss,' she said, though not to me, but to herself.†
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- Immortality is not enough for you!†
Part 1immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- He's immortal.†
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- I am not mortal, father, but immortal and damned, like angels put in hell by God.†
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- 'Because perhaps he was incapable of dying ....perhaps he is, and we are ....truly immortal?'†
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- We stand here, the two of us, immortal, ageless, rising nightly to feed that immortality on human blood; and there on your desk against the knowledge of the ages sits a flawless child as demonic as ourselves; and you ask me how I could believe I would find a meaning in the supernatural!†
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- We stand here, the two of us, immortal, ageless, rising nightly to feed that immortality on human blood; and there on your desk against the knowledge of the ages sits a flawless child as demonic as ourselves; and you ask me how I could believe I would find a meaning in the supernatural!†
Part 3immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- And yet he remained, held by the pressure of this unnatural group who had made of immortality a conformist's club.†
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- And oh, how much I wanted to confide to him the breadth of what I didn't understand; how, searching all these years, I'd been astonished to discover those vampires above had made of immortality a club of fads and cheap conformity.†
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- To give me immortality in this hopeless guise, this helpless form!†
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- To give me immortality in this hopeless guise, this helpless form.†
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- To give me immortality in this hopeless guise, this helpless form.†
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- 'When you arise, you will be immortal,' I said.†
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- And Madeleine, on the couch, was working with that regular passion, as if immortality could not conceivably mean rest, sewing cream lace to lavender satin for the small bed, only stopping occasionally to blot the moisture tinged with blood from her white forehead.†
Part 3immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- How many vampires do you think have the stamina for immortality?†
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- They have the cost dismal notions of immortality to begin with.†
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- For in becoming immortal they want all the forms of their life to be fined as they are and incorruptible: carriages made in the same dependable fashion, clothing of the cut which suited their prime, men attired and speaking in the manner they have always understood and valued.†
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- Soon, with an inflexible mind, and often even with the most flexible mind, this immortality becomes a penitential sentence in a madhouse of figures and forms that are hopelessly unintelligible and without value.†
Part 3immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- That whatever style or fashion or shape of existence made immortality attractive to him has been swept off the face of the earth.†
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- You are immortal.†
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- How baffling and awful it was, this smoothfaced, shimmering immortal man bent and rattled and whining like a crone.†
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- I thought quietly of all' the things I might say to him, how I might remind him that he was immortal, that nothing condemned him to this retreat save himself, and that he was surrounded with the unmistakable signs of inevitable death.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.