Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.

Ramona Ausubel
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In The Time Machine, a science fiction novel written by H.G. Wells, the main character goes back in time to explore different epochs in history. He meets a man who says that he is the same age as the protagonist and that all of their ages are happening at the same time. Of course, there is a big difference between a character in a book and a real person.

However, this quote shows how we perceive time differently from one moment to another. In our minds, time moves from present to past and from past to future, but it is actually an illusion. We have all been so eager to live our lives fully that we have missed seeing the fact that everything happens at once.

Source: No One Is Here Except All Of Us

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