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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

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I have thought the difference might be that my Mary knows she will live forever, that she will step ...

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How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in t...

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Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the tempo...

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What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and bec...

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It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it...

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José SaramagoThe Tale of the Unknown Island

He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lo...

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José SaramagoThe Tale of the Unknown Island

There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever pos...

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José SaramagoThe Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our liv...

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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Our nights are different. She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide, a...

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Julian BarnesA History of the World in 10½ Chapters

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick...

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Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's...

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You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, th...

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If the truth is inside,And the form is outside,What is the truth of sleep?

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time...

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It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been ...

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I can tell the time, though, by speak-ing, and as I nev-er sleep I can wak-en you at an-y hour you w...

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A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of co...

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A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a p...

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Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke...

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Lee ChildKilling Floor

I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.

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Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in...

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Gabe?"The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", J...

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In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

What shall you do all your vacation?’, asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg.

Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the ver...

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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, ...

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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experien...

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Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a cramped ...

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I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was ...

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Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that i...

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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...

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I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disg...

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But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were begin...

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The sun was up, the room already too warm. Light filtered in through the net curtains, hanging suspe...

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I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...

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I felt just the way I imagine the shade of poor old Samuel must have felt when the witch dragged him...

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Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. H...

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I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how...

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I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask ...

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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat be...

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Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hour...

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Mary Baker EddyScience and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man w...

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Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government impl...

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When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they ...

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I wash with the can of water I set aside the night before, and eat whatever I put next to it. The wa...

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different b...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone e...

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Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when ...

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Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...

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Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.

On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how ...

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It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south d...

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Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken......

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I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife...

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To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch ...

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I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up t...

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If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin H...

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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should...

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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in....

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He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again ...

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To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, a...

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I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....

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It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at al...

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Oscar WildeThe Canterville Ghost

Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself cle...

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One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a...

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One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I...

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Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain and work should al...

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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, s...

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Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, i...

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I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box...

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He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-b...

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Paul BowlesThe Sheltering Sky

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy t...

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Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

It's the oasis," said the camel driver."Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked."Becau...

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I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the tr...

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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god...

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Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor m...

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Philip SidneyAstrophel and Stella

I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you an...

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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awak...

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I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself wa...

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