““Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”
Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.””

—  Robert Sheckley, book Mindswap

Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)

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