"All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me."
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"He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has."
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"I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful."
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"Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep."
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"That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia."
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"I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour."
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"I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again."
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