Quotes About Inf

If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it. And so, if inflicting three years of fear and suffering was wrong, as everyone would agree, then inflicting three seconds of it was no less wrong. He caught a fleeting glimpse of God in the math here, in the infinitesimal duration of a life.

Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless.

If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it.

That his comments actually pertained to her questions—that in spite of the infinity in his eyes he was participating in a finite conversation—made up for the sourness in his face.

I think there's eternity in every second we're alive.

Infinitesimally soon, the eternity of his own death would commence and render all of this unreal.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time.

I thought about packing my bags, I thought about jumping out a window, I sat on the bed and thought, I thought about you. What kind of food did you life, what was your favorite song, who was the first girl you kissed, and where, and how, I'm running out of room, I want an infinitely long blank book and forever.

Googol?'' ''That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.

But it's turtles all the way down!

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Me dijo que su libro se llamaba el Libro de Arena, porque ni el libro ni la arena tienen ni principio ni fin

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Esa trama de tiempos que se aproximan, se bifurcan, se cortan o que secularmente se ignoran, abarca todas la posibilidades. No existimos en la mayoría de esos tiempos; en algunos existe usted y no yo; en otros, yo, no usted; en otros, los dos. En éste, que un favorable azar me depara, usted ha llegado a mi casa; en otro, usted, al atravesar el jardín, me ha encontrado muerto; en otro, yo digo estas mismas palabras, pero soy un error, un fantasma.

Modificar el pasado no es modificar un solo hecho; es anular sus consecuencias, que tienden a ser infinitas

The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.

I kept asking myself how a book could be infinite. I could not imagine any other than a cyclic volume, circular. A volume whose last page would be the same as the first and so have the possibility of continuing indefinitely.