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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

—Cormac McCarthy, 1992

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

—Charles Lamb, 1810

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

—Novalis, c. 1798

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

—Jane Austen, 1814

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000
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