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“My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.”

Mind Found Wish Sleep Deals Subjects Chests Going To Sleep Drawers

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?”

Men World Life Should Wish Sleep Existence Lord Enemy Doors This World Wall Arms Eating Lays Misery Prize Dread Foe Wretched Breach Fortresses

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.”

Dream Wish Sleep Imagine Sea Rivers Fishes Bones Boat Awake Lakes Fishing Fisherman

Author:Theocritus

“I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.”

I Can Wish Sleep Youth Despair Without Hope

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.”

Littles Desire Wish Sleep Succeed Ambition Accounts

Author:Ovid

“I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.”

Wish Sleep Awake Last Words

Author:Maria Theresa

“I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.”

Wish Sleep Mines Dresses Going To Sleep Storage So Sad

Author:Eva Longoria

“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.”

“Late at night when all the world is sleeping I stay up and think of you and I wish on a star that somewhere you are thinking of me too...Cause I'm dreaming of you tonight 'Til tomorrow I'll be holding you tight! And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be than here in my room, dreaming about you and me.”

Thinking World Dream Night Wish Stars Causes Sleep Rooms Tomorrow Late Tonight Think Of You Dreaming About You

Author:Selena

“So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.”

Ifs Want Needs Wells Said Desire Wish Sleep Issues Objects Comfort Messages Hunger Satisfaction Chains Charm Breasts Permit Milk Provoking Organisms Ache Infancy Swallowing Wailing

Author:William H. Gass

“In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.”

Play Dream Wish Sleep Repeats Fancy Our Dreams

Author:Claudius Claudianus

“People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.”

People Ifs Mean Doe Wish Sleep Dangerous Awake Flattery Caution Numb Employing Draught

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”