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Time (n.) laid ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠bare comes slowly into existence, keeps us waiting, and when it comes makes us sick because we realise it's been there for a long time.

Time (n.) will ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not be caught by the tail — wanting the moments of your life to order themselves like a life remembered is trying to catch time by the tail.

Time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not always irreversible: sometimes you can go forward or backward and it doesn't matter; other times the links tighten and you could never start again.

Time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made by men as a concrete quality of history: neither men nor their activities are in time, and the homogeneous "time" of capitalism is a product of the system, of compound interest.

Time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the one essential factor in philosophy that Marxist schemas forget: one needs a great deal of it to write a theoretical work — Being and Nothingness was begun in 1930.