“Time has branded them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the infinite possibilities they have ousted. But can those have been possible seeing that they never were? Or was that only possible which came to pass? Weave, weaver of the wind.” - James Joyce, Ulysses
“As soon as some of our young ladies cut their hair, put on blue spectacles and called themselves nihilists, they became convinced at once that, having put on the spectacles, they immediately began to have their own ‘convictions.’” - Dostoevsky