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I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.

—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC

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

—John Berger, 1984

Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.

—Ben Jonson, 1601
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