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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Sleep

"In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams."

Dream Morning Sleep
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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
Sleep

"Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams."

Men Dream Sleep
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Shania Twain Singer-songwriter
Sleep

"Criticism is always going to be painful. You live through it. I'll live through it now. It's even harder when you're younger. You don't have the maturity. You're still developing. If you get damaged while you're developing, it's a psychological battle after that. Today, if I get the criticism, I'm not bothered...if I wear the wrong thing, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Maybe when I was younger, I might have been more affected by that."

Sleep Criticism Maturity
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Robbie Williams Singer, Songwriter
Sleep

"I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing"... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'."

Stars Sleep Ugly Things
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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
Sleep

"I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down."

Writing Running Sleep
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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
Sleep

"Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone."

Soul Sleep Suicide
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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
Sleep

"Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe."

Mind Pain Sleep
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Sleep

"Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save."

Sleep House Politics
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Stefan Zweig Writer
Sleep

"Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep."

Mean Children Sleep
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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Sleep

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

Sleep Doors Bird
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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Sleep

"I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills on the businessman's special to Tokyo."

Believe Book Sleep
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