![[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.](/assets/img/quote-photos/on-common-water-its-substance-reaches-everywhere-it-touches-the-past-and-prep.jpg)
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