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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

—John Berger, 1984

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

—Novalis, c. 1798

This is Year Zero.

—Pol Pot, 1975

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!

—Marie Corelli, 1911
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