“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

“...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.”

“That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.”

“Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”

“But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.”

“The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”