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

—Ben Jonson, 1601

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

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

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

—Novalis, c. 1798

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

—Simone Weil, 1947
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