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We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.

—Karl Marx, 1847

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

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

—John Berger, 1984

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

—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC
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