Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992
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Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCTime’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC