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The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987
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