Water has a perfect memory, and is forever trying to get back to where it was. —Toni Morrison

 

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We are made of contracted water, earth, light and air - not merely prior to the recognition or representation of these, but prior to their being sensed. Every organism, in its receptive and perceptual elements, but also in its viscera, is a sum of contractions, of retentions and expectations. At the level of this primary vital sensibility, the lived present constitutes a past and a future in time.
 

—Gilles Deleuze
Difference and Repetition

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