"If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep."
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"I got problems, can't sleep at night. Cause your girl wanna come around and freak all night."
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"I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun."
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"Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go."
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"A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child."
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"I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep."
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"When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough."
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"Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that."
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"Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible."
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"Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial."
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"Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping."
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"I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep."
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"Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind."
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"Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever."
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"That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours."
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"One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after."
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"He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares."
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"I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision."
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"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."
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"Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop."
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