“When one has made a mistake, one says. "Another time I shall know what to do," when one should say is: "I already know what I shall really do another time."”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
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“Those in love do not know how to say good-bye: they are with one another all the time.”
The Furrow (1986)
Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 5

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“You know that there is a time to do one thing and another time to enjoy it.”
Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, January 4, 1971, page 18.
Chronicle "Forbidden to men", 1971

Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 8 : The Tower of the Angels
Context: "Now," said Giacomo Paradisi, "here you are, take the knife, it is yours."
"I don't want it," said Will. "I don't want anything to do with it."
"You haven't got the choice," said the old man. "You are the bearer now."
"I thought you said you was," said Lyra.
"My time is over," he said. "The knife knows when to leave one hand and settle in another, and I know how to tell..."

Speech in Oxford town hall (30 December 1872), quoted in The Times (31 December 1872), p. 5

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.
XI, 14
Confessions (c. 397)