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“I close my eyes, but I can’t fall asleep, my body dying for the rest while my mind’s wide awake.”

Book:Kafka on the Shore

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Kafka on the Shore

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“Fiz uma descoberta muito importante no Acampamento Currie: a felicidade consiste em dormir o suficiente. Só isso, mais nada. Todas as pessoas ricas e infelizes que você já conheceu tomam remédio pra dormir; soldados da Infantaria Móvel não precisam disso. Dê um beliche a um soldado e tempo pra se enfiar nele, e ele vai ficar tão feliz quanto um bichinho dentro de uma maçã... dormindo.”

Happiness Sleep

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Sleep is the only rest we get; It's then we are at peace. We do not have to mop away the floor And wipe away the grease.”

Sleep Escapism

Book:The Penelopiad

Source: The Penelopiad

“People are interested in other people. But your unconscious is not. Or only as they might directly affect you. It's been hired to do a very specific job. It never sleeps. It's more faithful than God.”

People Interest Sleep Faithful Unconscious Job

Book:Stella Maris

Source: Stella Maris

“Alcohol, the drug of choice in professional life, puts us to sleep, but then we wake and can't get back to sleep. 'Do you take a nip of whisky or not? Or do you put up with it? There are penalty clauses to all of these sleep-inducers,' [Former Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown] says. I knew this from medical school. It turns on you in the middle of the night.'”

Sleep Alcohol Insomnia Sleep Disturbance Soporifics

Book:On Sleep

Source: On Sleep

“My mum, her sister and my late grandmother were all nurses. Until fairly recently, nursing was one of the few occupations available to bright Australian women of modest means. Conditioned by years of night duty, sleep - and lack of sleep - was a constant topic of family conversation.”

Sleep Nursing Night Shift Sleep Disturbance Female Dominated Occupations

Book:On Sleep

Source: On Sleep

“Before I had a duck farm, I had a business partner. Between Brian and I, we had a thousand dollars invested. Brian had $990, and I had all the rest. I really did have all the rest, because I slept while he worked.”

Work Sleep Money Business Investing Lazy Ducks Duck Invest Business Partner

Book:Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Of all the joys which are slowly abandoning me, sleep is one of the most precious, though one of the most common, too. A man who sleeps but little and poorly, propped on many a cushion, has ample time to meditate upon this particular delight.”

Sleep

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“Some, like [Former Australian Greens Leader] Bob Brown, favour a greater overhaul of the political system, restricting sitting days to normal business hours, and compressing sitting weeks iinto longer blocks of time, allowing parliamentarians and their staff longer uninterrupted periods back in the electorate and at home with family. 'I think it would be better to have four or five full days a week and hav ethe evenings off - all of them,' Brown says. 'If peopel want to, they can have their party-room meetings and inevitable discussions after, but earlier, and have more sleep time at night.'”

Sleep Working Hours Sleep Disturbance Parliamentary Schedules

Book:On Sleep

Source: On Sleep

“A really fun thing to do at 3 a.m. is to google 'the future of sleep' for a glimpse into the dystopian future awaiting us. Sheer horror will keep you awake, but at least you'll be prepared for the revolution when we are all transformed into mindless cyborgs who never sleep.”

Sleep Technology Cyborgs Dystopian Future Sleep Disturbance

Book:On Sleep

Source: On Sleep

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