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“Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt.”

Book:Salt Slow

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“True sleep eluded me. Morpheus is a capricious god; he comes easily to some and only with greatest difficulty to others. To lure him, it is best to pretend disinterest. Engage the mind in some pursuit unrelated to what is truly desired and allow no distraction from it. For me, nothing works so well as a walk through Rome.”

Sleep

Book:Poison

Source: Poison

“By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might've felt better if I hadn't slept at all.”

Sleep Tired Nightmares Overthinking

Book:Hollow City

Source: Hollow City

“The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.”

Justice Sleep

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

Children Humor Parents Paraphrased

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I can sleep anywhere. Planes. Trains. Sofa. Lawn chairs. Call it the upside to my life as an army brat. Never having a home means, I guess, that everywhere is your home. There is absolutely no place I'm anxious to return to. But this is different. I'm not trying to fall asleep in someplace new; I'm trying to fall asleep in someplace that's old.”

Sleep New Place Old Palce

Book:All Fall Down

Source: All Fall Down

“What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.”

Sleep Stranger Strangers Stranger In My Bed

Book:For Two Thousand Years

Source: For Two Thousand Years

“Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.”

Sleep Humour

Book:Tweet Heart

Source: Tweet Heart

“Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.”

Sleep Sadness Depression

Author:William C. Hannan

“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us; and if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibilty to separate the two. Nor is this, the most striking phenomenon, incidental to such a state. It is an undoubted fact, that although our senses of touch and sight be for the time dead, yet our sleeping thoughts, and the visionary scenes that pass before us, will be influenced, and materially influenced, by the mere silent presence of some external object: which may not have been near us when we closed our eyes: and of whose vicinity we have had no waking consciousness.”

Sleep Consciousness

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.”

Sleep Angel Pale Demon Kim Harrison Hollows

Book:Pale Demon

Source: Pale Demon

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