Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."
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Infinity
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Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second."
Matsuo Basho
Poet
"the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being."
A. Edward Newton
Author
"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity."
Grant Morrison
Comic Book Writer, Novelist
"The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity."
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"But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness."
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"A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity"
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"Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity"
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"[L]ove is inventive to infinity."
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"There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all."
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"Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity."
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"Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities."
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"Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!"
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"The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always."
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
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"I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity."
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"Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God."
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"Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity."
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"Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for"
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"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."
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"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it."
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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
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"There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal."
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