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The term “infinite” is used across literature to evoke both literal and metaphorical boundlessness. Some authors use it in a mathematical or scientific sense, as when Diogenes Laertius declares “the universe is infinite” [1] or when John Locke muses on infinite duration and space [2, 3]. In other texts, “infinite” conveys an overwhelming, often mystical quality—a sense of unending bliss, adventure, or resourcefulness, as seen in Paramahansa Yogananda’s meditations on infinite love and grace [4, 5, 6] and Temple Bailey’s portrayal of life as “infinite adventure” [7]. Moreover, the word is employed to underscore the vastness of thoughts and the ceaseless fluctuation of human emotion—from Rabelais’s ironic “infinite number of fools” [8] to Wilde’s expression of “infinite pity” [9]. Whether describing physical expanses, abstract ideas, or the intensity of personal experience, “infinite” serves as a powerful rhetorical device to transcend ordinary limits and to suggest a mystery or majesty that defies confinement.
  1. “The universe is infinite.
    — from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
  2. Why Men more easily admit infinite Duration than infinite Expansion.
    — from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke
  3. But when applied to any particular finite beings, the extension of any body is so much of that infinite space as the bulk of the body takes up.
    — from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke
  4. Don't you see your son racing to the Infinite?"
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  5. After enjoying a short period of the Infinite Bliss, I shall return to earth and join Babaji.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  6. From today you shall live by the astral light, your bodily atoms fed from the infinite current.'" Giri Bala fell into silence.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  7. "Life for you and Ridgeley," he told her, "should be something more than work or play—it should be infinite adventure."
    — from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey
  8. Besides, it is avouched by Solomon that infinite is the number of fools.
    — from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
  9. Yet he could not help feeling infinite pity for the young man who had just made this strange confession to him.
    — from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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