Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

D.h. Lawrence
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  2. Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom? - James Joyce

  3. If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King - Robert Liparulo

  4. But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that. - E.L. Konigsburg

  5. I felt myself falling asleep; my eyes were closing, and then I thought, Maybe I should just kill myself. Suicidal thoughts always sneak up on me like that. But I don’t mind them. They’re like aspirin. They calm me down. - Jonathan Ames

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  1. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

  2. Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

  3. It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced,...

  4. A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

  5. It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness...

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