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“But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.” William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Every movement of infinity comes about by passion, and no reflection can bring a movement about.” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Some infinities are larger than other infinities” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“These infinities represent an unending regress that goes on not just very far, but forever.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“The mind . . . entertains the idea of limitless, through the greater difficulty which it finds in entertaining that of limited, space.” Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka
“The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“This being granted we must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers because they are just as numerous as their roots, and all the numbers are roots.” Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end” Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“By the name God I understand a substance that is infinite, eternal, immutable, independent, all-knowing, all-powerful, and by which I myself and everything else, if anything else does exist, have been created.” René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought—particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.” Woody Allen, Side Effects
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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