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永生
Immortality
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
我要告诉你一个大秘密，我的朋友。不要等待最后的审判，它每天都在发生。
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
当一个高尚的生命已经准备好步入老年，它所揭示的并不是衰微，而是不朽的最初日子。
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
不朽不是礼物，不朽是成就;只有那些奋力拼搏的人才能拥有它。
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
当一个高贵的生命为年老做了准备，它所揭示的并不是衰微，而是不朽的最初日子。
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
如果一个人能在生与死之间架起一座桥梁，如果他能在死后继续活下去，那么他也许是一个伟大的人。
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
我们不相信永生，因为我们可以证明它，但我们试图证明它，因为我们不能不相信它。
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
我不想通过进入名人堂来获得永生。我想通过不死而不朽。
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
我不相信人能长生不老;我唯一想要的就是通过我的书来了解这种事情。
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
我的音乐将永远继续下去。也许这么说很傻，但当我知道事实的时候，我就能说事实了。我的音乐将永远继续下去。
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
正是数学本身的永葆青春，使它与其他科学令人不安的不朽性相区别。
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
如果你的贡献是至关重要的，总会有人接替你的位置，那就是你的不朽。
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.
我羡慕我面前的这些女人，她们的美丽依旧。生活有它对生活的报复。英年早逝是永葆青春的秘诀。
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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
如果你要摧毁对人类不朽的信仰，不仅是爱，而且是世界上所有生命延续所依赖的每一种生命力，都会立刻枯竭。
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
我就像一颗流星，终于在可爱的星群中找到了她的位置，在那里我们将永远在天上闪耀。
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
灵魂不朽的学说与其说是安慰不如说是威胁。
Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.
一旦你有了一定的钱，就不再是问题了。我宁愿把我的文化烙印印在生活的结构上。除了钱，你想要的只是永生。
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
社会秩序中的任何关系，只要在其中注入某种人类同情的精神，就能持久，这种精神使生命具有不朽的资格。