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• I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Adventure, Goes On, Want

  "The Coming of Age". Book by Simone de Beauvoir. Part 2, Chapter 2: "Time, activity, history", p. 412, 1970.

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• The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

  Gustave Flaubert

  Terror, Approach, Deeper

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• There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me

  Gustave Flaubert

  Crush, Two, Soul

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• On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Cousin, Party, Clouds

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Stars, Distance, Dark

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• But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Passion, Space, Crowds

  "Madame Bovary".

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• History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Events, Horizon, Invisible

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.348, Spectra

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• You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that infinity is a purely local phenomenon. You can turn over a stone and find it crawling there. Or you can make it yourself out of whatever materials are at hand.

  Mike Carey

  Mean, Hands, Space

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• Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Men, Vision

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

  Rudy Rucker

  God, Education, Math

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boredom, Trying, Window

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• Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.

  Rudy Rucker

  Teaching, Math, Drawing

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.273, Courier Corporation

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• Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Men, Perception, Caverns

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Dream, Jobs

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• Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.

  Joseph Murphy

  Life, Eye, House

  Joseph Murphy (2012). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, Government, People

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• Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

  Lily Tomlin

  Science, Ego, Ego Trip

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• A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Religious, Nice

  Oscar Niemeyer (2003). “Oscar Miemeyer, a Legend of Modernism”

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• No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Desire, Too Late

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Details, Different

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.363

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, World

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Character, Mirrors, Infinite

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• Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.

  Edith Stein

  Oneness, Broken, Diversity

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• I have a need of silence and of stars.
  Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
  The silken sound of whirled infinity
  Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

  William Alexander Percy

  Stars, Voice, Silence

  William Alexander Percy (1944). “The collected poems of William Alexander Percy”

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• Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.

  Barry Hughart

  Darkness, Brain, Tiny

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.194, Spectra

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