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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

We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

—John Quincy Adams, 1844

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

—John Berger, 1984
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