Quote by Roman de la Rose

"Li Tens qui s'en vait nuir e jor, Senz repos prendre e senz sejor, E qui de nos se part e emble Si celeement qu'il nos semble Qu'il s'arest adès en un point, E il ne s'i areste point, Ainz ne fine de trespasser, Que l'en ne puet neïs penser Queus tens ce est qui est presenz, Sel demandez as clers lisanz; Car ainz que l'en l'eüst pensé Seroient ja troi tens passé."

— Roman de la Rose

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Time, who goes away night and day, without rest and without interruption, who parts from us and steals away so quickly, seems to us to be always stopped at one place, but he never stops there at all. He never ceases passing away, so that no man, even if you ask learned clerks, can tell you what time it is that is present, for before he had thought, three moments would already have passed. — Lines 361–372, tr. Dahlberg (1995)

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Roman de la Rose

' (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in and presented as an allegorical dream vision. It was written in two stages by two authors: Guillaume de Lorris composed the first part (4,058 verses) around 1230, and Jean de Meun composed the second part (17,722 additional verses) around 1275.

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