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

—Simone Weil, 1947

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

—Jane Austen, 1814

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

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

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

—Myrtle Reed, 1910
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