Emily Dickinson Quotes About Immortality
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The only secret people keep is immortality.
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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.
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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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For love is immortality.
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Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.
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