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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"To have opinions is to sell the essence of today for the essence of tomorrow."
Fernando Pessoa
"Time and tide wait for no man"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"The life so short, the craft so long to learn"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"The present is big with the future."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"True friendship resists time, distance, and silence."
Isabel Allende
"The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand"
Italo Calvino
"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire"
Jorge Luis Borges
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing"
Jorge Luis Borges
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time"
Leo Tolstoy
"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were"
Marcel Proust
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."
Philip Roth
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf"
Rabindranath Tagore
"The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough"
Rabindranath Tagore
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay"
Walter Benjamin
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner