"O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace."
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"The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet."
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"My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth."
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"Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner."
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"No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep."
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"I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door."
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"Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep."
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"leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing"
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"I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window."
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"My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it."
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"The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed."
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"now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound."
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"He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells."
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"Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go."
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"'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
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"The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off."
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"Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance."
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"She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening."
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"A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep."
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"Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in."
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