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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

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

—John Berger, 1984

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000
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