Fragment 12
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ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν ἐμϐαίνουσιν, ἕτερα καὶ ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ.
“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.”
V. Organization as the Message. p. 96
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
“Time flows away like the water in the river.”
"Time", from the album The Turn Of A Friendly Card. (Written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.)
Quotes from songs
“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”
Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole
Slaves of Time (p. 18)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
“You cannot step twice into the same rivers.”
ποταμῷ γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμβῆναι δὶς τῷ αὐτῷ
Fragment 91
Plutarch, On the EI at Delphi
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Variant: You cannot step twice into the same rivers.
Есть книги настолько живые, но все боишься, что, пока не читал, она уже изменилась, как река — сменилась, пока жил — тоже жила, как река — шла и ушла. Никто дважды не вступал в ту же реку. А вступал ли кто дважды в ту же книгу?
Pushkin and Pugachev (1937)
