How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were al — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
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