Given the extraordinary ability of the human mind to make sense out of things, it is natural occasionally to make sense out of things that have no sense at all.

~ Richard Furnald Smith

How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicatement would be meaningless.

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For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

—George Orwell. 1984