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Updated: May 7, 2025

She saw, now, that the river symbolized not only life as a whole, with its many ever-changing conditions and currents, amid which the individual must live; the river symbolized, as truly, the individual life, with its ever-changing moods and motives, its ever-varying and often-conflicting currents of instinct and training, its infinite variety of intellectual deeps and shallows, its gentle places of spiritual calm, and its wild and turbulent rapids of dangerous passion.

Harold Bell Wright - The Re-Creation of Brian Kent