"...I give to you the mausoleum of all hope and desire (a pocket watch)... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won... They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is and illusion of philosophers and fools."
-William Faulkner