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• If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of unity and plenitude. As every experience emanates from the non-experience which is our real being, the me also bears the scent of its source. This remembering is awakened through those moments of desirelessness and in deep sleep.

  Jean Klein

  Real, Remembrance, Ego

  Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.40, New Harbinger Publications

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• His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Vision, Watches

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Thinking, Suffering

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• You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose.
  There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
  Just that something so good just can't function no more.
  When love, love will tear us apart again.

  Ian Curtis

  Confusion, Tears, Taste

  "So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks".

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• Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.

  Walther von der Vogelweide

  Girl, Song, Flower

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• Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

  Mark Halperin

  Exercise, Luxury, Healthy

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.

  Syd Barrett

  Girl, Mean, Night

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• Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night. And I thought, jeez, I'll never forget that. And went back to sleep, and it was gone. You'll hear something years later that another songwriter that you respect writes, and you go, jeez, I think that was the remnants of that song that got sent to me.

  John Prine

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Extroverts, Introvert, Eating

  "Caring for Your Introvert" by Jonathan Rauch, www.theatlantic.com. March 2003.

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• And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

  Lewis Carroll

  Peace, Nature, Shoes

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.190, Lewis Carroll

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• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Peace, Bereavement

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Peace, Stars

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.352, Delphi Classics

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• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

  Lord Byron

  College, Devil, Employment

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2475, Delphi Classics

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• Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, War, Battle

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.186, Paradise Publishing

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• Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Loyalty, Fall

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.76, Paradise Publishing

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• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Alcohol, Doe, Three

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Fall, Intelligent

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.491

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• The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Lying, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Speak, Awake

  John Bunyan, William Mason (of Rotherithe.) (1814). “The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream ... In three parts”, p.247

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• Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Men, Noble

  James Russell Lowell (1853). “Poems”, p.220

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• All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Aristocracy, Noble, Quiet

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.230, Ravenio Books

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• By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

  Samuel Richardson

  Love, Soul, World

  Samuel Richardson (1820). “Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage”, p.125

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• The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

  William Cowper

  Nurse, Sick, Watches

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 1 'The Sofa' l. 89

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• Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Trying

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