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

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC

In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.

—Novalis, c. 1798

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

—Simone Weil, 1947

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

—Jane Austen, 1814
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