"I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever."
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"He who sleeps half a day has won half a life."
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"Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree."
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"Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter."
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"Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness."
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"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."
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"Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!"
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"Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman."
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"It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt."
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"My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices."
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"Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction)"
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"Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!"
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"Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!"
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"We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one."
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"That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him."
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"There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
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"Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles."
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"I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway."
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"I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds."
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"All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy."
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