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“Your previous accomplishments should be your stepping stones; you need them to jump up. They should not become beds that should keep you comfortably sleeping.”

Book:Mine Your Gold: How to dig up and optimize your hidden greatness

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“She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her eyes. All at once the image came to her of the sky she had seen while swimming on her back. And Erroll Garner's 'I'll Remember April.' Let me sleep, she thought. Just let me sleep. And wait for the dream to come.”

Life Self Dream Death Sleep Thought

Book:After the Quake

Source: After the Quake

“A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality.”

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Book:The New Land

Source: The New Land

“The miraculous power of love has often been underestimated just like we underestimate the power of sleep. Most of the herculean tasks performed by men were possible because they had been deeply in love and had slept well the night before.”

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Book:Indians in Pakistan

Source: Indians in Pakistan

“At what point,” he asked, “does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There is merely what happened, what is now happening and what will one day happen. Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit – we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us. Gravity has a hand. Bear in mind trapdoors. We fall in love, yes? Tumble, in fact. Is it choice? Enough said.”

Love Fall Sleep Possibility Suicide

Book:In the Lake of the Woods

Source: In the Lake of the Woods

“I firmly believe that life is made up of moments. Some are significant, and some are disposable. Some sit at the edge of your awareness and taunt you when you're trying to sleep, and others fade into the background noise of life. But every moment, no matter how small, has the potential to create or destroy you.”

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Book:Conspiracy Boy

Source: Conspiracy Boy

“Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newborn babe.”

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Book:A Dance with Dragons

Source: A Dance with Dragons

“I finally did sleep for a little while, only it was like the difference between Pringles and actual chips, like someone took sleep and then put it through a horrible industrial machine, made it into a paste, and re-formed it and baked it into a shape that was supposed to look like sleep but was not anything even close.”

Sleep

Book:Dear Fang, With Love

Source: Dear Fang, With Love

“Like honey is the sleep of the just.”

Justice Sleep Honey Just

Author:Anne Carson

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