Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCIn time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCTime’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947