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Quotation from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
“Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen”
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. IX, Ch. 8 (Project Gutenberg text)
Breaking off his story, Tristram addresses his dear Jenny on the swiftness of time and the separation that awaits them.
Citation: "Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen" — Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. IX, Ch. 8 (Project Gutenberg text). (id sterne-tristram-shandy-q7)
Portrait: Laurence Sterne by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joshua Reynolds, Public domain.
