How Big Is the World?

"Anyway, my wish is very ordinary: to live like a mortal."

"I want to witness a broader world, feel the possibilities of the unknown, make eternal stillness change, and head toward a new future."

"The self I currently feel will be drowned and disappear. In its place will be the consciousness of a God capable of comprehending Undefinable Numbers."

"This is not actually difficult to understand."

"The passage of time comes from changes in matter. Every living person loses something and gains something at every moment."

"You have learned more knowledge. You have become smarter than that beggar in the slums. Even if you have forgotten nothing, you have already lost that pure stupidity of the past."

"Aristotle believed that the essence of Infinity was lack—not the lack of perfection, but the lack of finitude."

"That is my current state, just like those corpses of gods."

"Flawless, yet trapped in eternal stillness. I have lost a future full of the unknown. Change has vanished from me."

Li Heng reached out and gently wiped the corner of Achilles's mouth, brushing away a tiny crumb of hawthorn.

"You possess self-awareness. You can feel the passage of time, sense the changes of all things, and experience the happiness and joy of savoring good food. That makes you a living person."

"You are an imperfect mortal, with an infinite future that I do not possess."

"You have endless life. You can become the eternal protagonist in this Paradise, enjoy a life where everything goes your way, and happily loaf around as you please."

"In my eyes, there is nothing noble or great in this world that is worth a person giving up their life for."

"Parents, relatives, friends, lovers—every other person one can see is merely a fleeting copy in the torrent of time.