Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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