What hath night to do with sleep?

John Milton

Stichwörter: sleep night paradise-lost



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The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life

M.P. Shiel

Stichwörter: sleep night drugs decadence decadent



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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Emily Brontë

Stichwörter: sleep work mornings



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He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not the energy to ascertain his position in time and space, he also lacked the desire. ... In utter comfort, utter relaxation he lay absolutely still for a while, and then sank back into on the the light momentary sleeps that occur after a long, profound one.

Paul Bowles

Stichwörter: sleep



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If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Stichwörter: sleep creativity



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It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

Jonathan Franzen

Stichwörter: sleep enchantment



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He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.

Theodore Sturgeon

Stichwörter: sleep



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Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

H.C. Artmann

Stichwörter: sleep dreams newspapers surrealism



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No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

Bohumil Hrabal

Stichwörter: books sleep authors brains underwear



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On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

Tom Robbins

Stichwörter: humor inspirational writing sleep thought-provoking



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