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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCIn time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC