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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

—Tennessee Williams, 1951

Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.

—Ben Jonson, 1601

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC
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