...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
Vladimir NabokovPerhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
Vladimir Nabokovwhile the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
Vladimir Nabokov