“‘my sole pastime, my only sport, was the purest of all: swimming. It seems to me that I discover and recognise myself when I return to this universal element. My body becomes the direct instrument of my mind, the author of its ideas. To plunge into water, to move one’s whole body, from head to toe, in its wild and graceful beauty, to twist about in its pure depths, this is for me a delight only comparable to love.’”