You shall not go down twice
to the same river, nor can you
go home again.
What is most changeable
is shown to be
fullest of eternity,
and your relationship to the river,
and the river's relationship to you
and to itself,
turns out to be at once more complex
and more reassuring
than a mere lack of identity.
You can go home again,
so long as you understand
that home is a place
where you have never been.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
(who was paraphrasing Heraclitus)
(edited, arranged quote)
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