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• And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.201, Penguin

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• Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Moving, Doubt

  Frederick Buechner (2007). “Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC”, p.128, Theologischer Verlag Zürich

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• If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Children, Night

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• Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a really sad day when ye have t' pinch yerself twice." Old woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night

  Karen Hawkins

  Winter, Night, Granddaughter

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• You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm

  Jack London

  Lying, Night, Men

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.2931, Jack

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• In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Meditation, Encounters

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Firsts, Said

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• With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Insomnia

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• To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Fall, Taken

  John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.438

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• Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Night, Long

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear. It is impossible to be unhappy when listening to a mockingbird. So stuffed with songs it is, it can't seem to make up it's mind which to sing first, so it sings them all, a dozen different songs at once, in a dozen different voices. On and on it sings without a pause, so peppy, even frantic, as if its voice alone is keeping the world awake.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Song, Morning, Voice

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.185, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Halloween

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.177, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Men, Animal

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• She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.

  Richelle Mead

  Good Morning, Morning Inspirational, Bed

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.663, Penguin

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• I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Morning, Past, Insomnia

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Little Nugget”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.

  J. C. Ryle

  Real, Simple, Men

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• In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Morning, Sleep

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

  Tom Perrotta

  Lying, Dark, Minutes

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• Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

  Steven Morrissey

  Waste, Cried, Lays

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• Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Wall, Father

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

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• Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

  Tim Winton

  Alive, Prove

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• Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

  Tim Winton

  Lasts, Rooms, Persons

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• Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.

  Steven Hall

  Dream, Clouds, Light

  Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.177, Canongate Books

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• But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.

  Dave Eggers

  Cities, People, Dancing

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.223, Vintage

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• Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Art, Stars

  'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

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