The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCDo not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCScars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992