Sentence:  The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate , `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; but true memory does not count nor add : it holds fast to things that were and they are outside of <WSD>time</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past