Sisko : [on the image of his dead wife] I don’t know if you can understand. I see her like this, every time I close my eyes. In the darkness, in the blink of an eye, I see her… like this. Prophet : None of your past experiences helped prepare you for this consequence. Sisko : And I have never figured out how to live without her. Prophet : So, you choose to exist here. [Sisko nods] Prophet : It is not linear. Sisko : [sobs] No. It’s not linear.
I’d not say a flat circle.
Mark Twain has this wonderful quote - “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.”
Yup, if you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.