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The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.

—Karl Marx, 1847
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