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“We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.”

Time Water Fishes Breathe

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.”

Ifs Long Stills Time Water Strength Bed Draws Weakness Weak Tricks Lazy Chairs Laziness Idleness Weakening Weak Minds

Author:Julia Peterkin

“At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.”

Knows Done Age Time Water Hours Gone Salt

Book:The Infinite Plan: A Novel

Source: The Infinite Plan: A Novel

“Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.”

Two Time Water Destiny Fishes Breathe Our Destiny Pouring

Author:Louise Erdrich

“River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.”

Stills Time Water Flow Rivers

Author:Barten Holyday

“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”

Men May Said Stills Use Body Running Time Water Saws Masters Behavior Ill Great Men Void

Author:Michel de Montaigne