O marciano encontrou-me na rua e teve miedo de minha impossibilidade humana. Como pode existir, penseu consigo, um ser que no existir po‹  e sem tamanha anula c° a‹  o de existe"  ncia? The Martian met me in the streets and was frightened by my human impossibility. He wondered how such a being could exist who could not exist without unmaking so much existence. 16

-Andrade, Carlos Drummond de
Li c° a‹  o de coisas,'Science Fiction'.

L'impossibilite¤   o  u' je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas me de¤  couvre son existence. The impossibility I find myself in to prove that God does not exist proves to me his existence.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Des esprits forts', no.13.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing, Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown But vainly flapped its tinsel wing.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'The Definition of Love' (published1681).