If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

— William Shakespeare

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

— Baruch Spinoza

Nothing tells memory from ordinary moments. Only afterwords do they claim remembrance on account of their scars.

- La Jetée

This was the purpose of the experiment: to throw emissaries into time, to call past and future to the rescue of the present.

- La Jetée