Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992
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The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCYears 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, 1911For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC