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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: infinity

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"If the Doors of Perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it truly is - infinite."
— William Blake

tags: infinity, perception

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"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
— Robert Wilensky

tags: infinity, monkeys, shakespeare

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"Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition."
— Louis Zukofsky

tags: addition, infinity, intelligence, math, mathematics, mind, thought

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"It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: beloved, infinity, love

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"An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space."
— Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)

tags: infinity, passion, time

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"The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror"
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: infinity, terror

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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

tags: infinity, soul, universe, world

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"When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment? "
— Muriel Barbery (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)

tags: beauty, infinity, tea

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"Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do."
— Sarah Manguso

tags: chairs, infinity, movement, possibility, reality

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"Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum."
— Gregory Benford

tags: beyond, infinity

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