"Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim."
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"Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film."
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"Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real."
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"I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team."
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"When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?"
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"He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim."
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"I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate."
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"If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim."
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"Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer."
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"Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim."
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"Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play."
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"It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is. When it is present, it seems to be eternal, abiding forever, and there is no need to examine it or clutch it. Later, when it has evaporated, you stare in dismay at your empty palm, where only a little of the perfume lingers to prove that once it was there, and now is flown."
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"I don't even know how to swim!"
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"In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]"
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"I'd love to design my own swim collection for them (VS)... Heidi (Klum) does the lipsticks, I would love to one day do the bikinis."
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"Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in."
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"I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes."
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"I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica... You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off."
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"You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over."
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"Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready."
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