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What water gives, water takes away.

—Portuguese proverb

The smell of rain is rich with life.

—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

—Toni Morrison, 1987

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

—Claude Monet, 1908

Water is the first principle of everything.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BC

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923

Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.

—Ge Hong, c. 300

I drink for the thirst to come.

—François Rabelais, 1535

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

—W.H. Auden, 1957