This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975
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I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCIn time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711