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“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”

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“But on that pale hand is no ring of mine, To no one will I give it, ever. The new moon’s golden beam forged it for me, And slipping it on in my sleep, whispered to me entreatingly; “Treasure this gift, be proud of the dream!” I won’t give the ring to anyone, ever.”

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“Once in my room I had to stop every loophole, to close the shutters, to dig my own grave as I turned down the bed-clothes, to wrap myself in the shroud of my nightshirt.”

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“One of the many reasons human cultures have long associated sleep with death is that they each demonstrate the continuity of the world in our absence.”

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“A night full of nightmares is way better than a sleepless one.”

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“Insomnia is different,' I said. It was hard to explain this to people. 'You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.”

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“When the sun goes down, the insomniac dreams of having a nightmare, just to get some sleep in this too loud world.”

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“Sleep comes slowly to a mind of cluttered thoughts in search of order and resolve.”

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“There is no faith and no hope without sleep.”

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“Darkness enables us to shine.”

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“We look to the East for a wisdom that we shall not use - and to the sleeper for the secret that we shall not find. So, I say, what of the night, the terrible night? The darkness is the closet in which your lover roosts her heart, and that night-fowl that caws against her spirit and yours, dropping between you and her the awful estrangement of his bowels. The drip of your tears in his implacable pulse. Night people do not bury their dead, but on the neck of you, their beloved and waking, sling the creature, husked of its gestures. And where you go, it goes, the two of you, your living and her dead, that will not die; to daylight, to life, to grief, until both are carrion.”

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