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• Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life. I was beset on all sides by invisible worries. So, I shut myself in and slept. I slept until sleep exhausted me. Spring passed, summer ended, fall came, and then winter arrived. Then, it turned into another gentle spring.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Science, Twenties

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• You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—

  Tahereh Mafi

  People, Naked, Want

  Tahereh Mafi (2013). “Unravel Me”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I feel like my pure and proper image is causing others to be really cautious about becoming close to me. They think I sleep as soon as it hits midnight

  Seohyun

  Thinking, Midnight, Becoming

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Climbing, Class, Purple

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

  Daniel Johns

  Bed, Minutes, Extras

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• Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Dream, Lying, Europe

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• Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

  Jedediah Berry

  Dream, Men, Sat

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.158, Penguin

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• It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Night, Knowing

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• Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Animal, Men, Mind

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• I am not sexually attracted to women. I would rather sleep with an ugly man than with a woman.

  Susan Ward

  Men, Ugly, Sexually

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• He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.

  Umar

  Prayer, Night, Offering

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• I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.

  Matsuo Basho

  Home, Air, House

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• Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt,
  Leap, leap between us and the easy out;
  Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go;
  Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

  Marie Ponsot

  Letting Go, Doubt, Use

  Marie Ponsot (2013). “Springing: New and Selected Poems”, p.64, Knopf

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• I had longed to come home but now that I was there, it wasn't much fun. Home wasn't the same if I couldn't sleep in my own bedroom or use the bathroom by myself. I felt like a stranger in those familiar rooms.

  Peg Kehret

  Fun, Home, Rooms

  Peg Kehret (2013). “Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little
  darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

  Ned Beauman

  Dream, Men, Light

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• A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Military, Pride, Men

  Remark to to Ogata Taketora, the Editor in Chief of Asahi Shimbun, on January 09, 1942. "The Reluctant Admiral". Book by Hiroyuki Agawa, 1979.

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• It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but it’s a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Insomnia, Night

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

  David Leavitt

  Passion, Writing, Tired

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• Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

  Mikey Welsh

  Writing, Heart, Weekend

  "Weezer's Mikey Welsh: His Final Weeks" by Jillian Mapes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2011.

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• You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.

  Zach Braff

  Night, Bed, Alarms

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• Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Home, Piano, Play

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• A sleeping bear had been awoken.

  John Boozman

  Bears

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• You just can't pull out the gun and blow the TV away anymore 'cause the baby might be sleeping.

  Tre Cool

  Baby, Blow, Gun

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