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Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

—Cormac McCarthy, 1992

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC

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

—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC

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
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