"Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?"
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"Every time I wake up I have this huge dreadlock in the back, and I don't know why. It's not like I sleep like a maniac or anything. It gets knots out really easy, and it's handy."
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"Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape."
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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
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"In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass."
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"Go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
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"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
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"The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd."
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"Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel."
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"Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world."
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"Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."
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"Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender."
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"I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things."
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"Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger."
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"Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies."
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"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
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"The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God."
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"I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep."
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"At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning."
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"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
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