No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy…

H. G. Wells
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No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it? ✨ H. G. Wells (2016). The Time Machine, p.90, H. G. Wells
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