Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally."
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Awake
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Heraclitus
Philosopher
"Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds."
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The madman is a dreamer awake"
Caryl Churchill
Playwright
"What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake."
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"We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake."
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"Go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
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"If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state."
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"Be fully awake if you want to dream"
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"I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night."
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"Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time."
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"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake."
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"It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake."
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"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."
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"Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake."
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"Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you."
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"Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake."
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"If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'"
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"Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali."
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"I want to meet my God awake."
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"Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?"
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"Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy."
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"You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?"
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"He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep."
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"While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities."
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