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“Important, too, is the pride we feel in the well-exercised body. “The fuller sense of self we have,” Young once told an interviewer, “the more responsibility we take for it.”
― Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

“Non-time imposes on time the tyranny of its spatiality: in every life there is
a north and a south, and the orient and the occident. At the extreme limit
or, at the least, at the crossroads, as one’s eyes fly over the seasons, there is
the unequal struggle of life and death, of fervor and lucidity, albeit one of
despair and collapse, the strength as well to face tomorrow. So goes every
life. So goes this book, between sun and shadow, between mountain and
mangrove, between dawn and dusk, stumbling and binary.
Time also to settle the score with several fantasies and a few phantoms.

from “i, laminaria…”
― Aimé Césaire, The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire

“You don’t have to be a great swimmer to appreciate the benefits of sensory solitude and the equilibrium the water can bring.”
― Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

“We're on our way to discovering what lies at the very root of your fear and loathing of the Leaver life. We're on our way to discovering why you feel you must carry the revolution forward even if it destroys you and the entire world. We're on our way to discovering what your revolution was a revolution against.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael