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A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

—Jane Austen, 1814

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

—Myrtle Reed, 1910

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

—Novalis, c. 1798

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

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

—John Berger, 1984
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