"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim"
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"What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess."
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"Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows."
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"The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings"
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"In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top."
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"Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim."
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"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."
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"If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?"
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"There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction."
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"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water."
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"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."
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"But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors."
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"Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude."
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"He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways."
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"What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?"
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"The SI Swim cover was life changing, not just for myself but for women everywhere who've been told they can't do something because of their size. Body positivity is no longer a side conversation, it's mainstream."
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"The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head."
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"You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight."
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"So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray."
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"The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific."
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