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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Novalis, c. 1798

 Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC

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

—Myrtle Reed, 1910

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

—John Berger, 1984
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