"You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together."
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"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing."
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"Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death."
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"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."
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"...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste."
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"The only thing is worrying about sleeping. If I have to be up early I worry about being able to get to sleep."
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"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."
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"All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most."
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"The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange."
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"...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world."
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"They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours."
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"Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night."
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"Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks."
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"This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other."
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"Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?"
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"No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language."
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"I bought a new pair of pajamas with pockets, which is great, cause now i don't have to hold things when I sleep."
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"The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness."
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"I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day."
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"There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them."
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