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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

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.

—Johannes Kepler, 1605

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

—Simone Weil, 1947

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987
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