mortal being
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He denounces his status as a mortal being and goes on to encourage whoever’s listening to do the same if that’s what they want to do.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
Bohm was desperate to know, to discover the secret of everything, but he knew it wasn’t attainable, not for any mortal being.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2018
Rather the open, clear, knife-through-butter pain that comes from a mortal being who eventually will lose all and yet who cares.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We must remember that even the Pope is just another mortal being.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth, On the last verge of mortal being stand, Close to the realms where angels have their birth, Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land!
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood