It may be so because you do believe, since Fate allows Faith to shape the future, if only for a little while.

But in me Wisdom has destroyed Faith and therefore I must die.

Even if I sleep again for tens of thousands of years, what will it help me, seeing that sleep is unconsciousness and that I shall only wake again to die, since sleep does not restore to us our youth ?" He ceased, and walked up and down the rock with a troubled mien.

Then he stood in front of me and said in a triumphant voice: "At least, while I live I will rule, and then let come what may come.

I know that you do not believe, and the first victory of this new day of mine shall be to make you believe.