“However interesting and lovely my days were, I could get from one day to the next only by passing through a night. I have, it is true, known lovely nights here; nights of sound sleep and good dreams and nights made wakeful by happy thoughts. but I have not always been a good sleeper, and my thoughts at night have sometimes been far from happy.”
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Wendell Berry, an American novelist born on August 5, 1934, is renowned for his profound descriptions of rural life and his critical views on modern industrial civilization. more
“Sleep came on him as a thief, consciousness stolen like a forgotten coin from his pocket.”
“Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.”
“Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.”