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• My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

  Yann Martel

  Gratitude, Ocean, Grateful

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.

  Rene Descartes

  Believe, Greatness, Light

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• Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Stars, Memories

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

  John Steinbeck

  Depression, Self, Mental Illness

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

  Franz Wright

  People, Loving You, Tongue

  Franz Wright (1993). “The night world and the word night: poems”, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

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• It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Ambition, Reality, Views

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.

  Charles Simic

  Thinking, Here I Am, Space

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• What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

  Justina Chen

  Beautiful, Sunset, Lakes

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• Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

  William Blake

  Sky, Roots, Tree

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.122, Pearson Education

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• We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

  Peter Høeg

  Fear, Thinking, Encounters

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.101, Macmillan

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• Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming.

  Yukio Mishima

  Memories, Grief, Passion

  "The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea".

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• Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.

  Vera Nazarian

  Creativity, Creative, Elements

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• I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

  Lu Xun

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

  George MacDonald

  Art, Moving, Fire

  George MacDonald (2006). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Admiration, Alcoholics Anonymous, Phenomenon

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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• Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Ocean, Moving, Sight

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• One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Brother, Doors

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• Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

  Moby

  Dog, Should Have, Enthusiasm

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• When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

  Steven Pressfield

  Passion, Conquer, Wells

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.18, Black Irish Books

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• After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Football, Wall, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

  Dave Eggers

  Creativity, Ideas, Space

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• Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Population, Guarantees

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• Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
  Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
  Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
  Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
  In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
  To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
  The temple of the Power whom all obey,
  That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
  Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

  James Gates Percival

  Play, Goal, Car

  James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322

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• Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.

  Arthur Adamov

  Heart, Men, Echoes

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