„That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.“

— William Faulkner

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„Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:There lie they, and here lie weUnder the spreading chestnut tree.“
— George Orwell
„It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„Acts of injustice doneBetween the setting and the rising sunIn history lie like bones, each one.“
— W. H. Auden