"He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it."
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"I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead."
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"Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia."
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"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."
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"Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound."
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"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."
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"I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out."
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"When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool."
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"For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream."
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"O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night."
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"Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know."
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"Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time."
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"The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot."
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"In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time."
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"Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions."
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"I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy."
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"I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind."
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"People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it."
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"People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'."
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"O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"
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