Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear that they do not. Some are disquieted by incessant dreams, and a fortunate few are visited often by dreams of delightful character. Some will say that they were at one time troubled in sleeping but have 'recovered' from it, as though awareness were a disease, as perhaps it is. . Gene Wolfe
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  1. ...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times. - Anonymous

  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. Time turns our lies into truths.

  2. Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

  3. And what of the dead? I own that I thought of myself, at times, almost as dead. Are they not locked below ground in chambers smaller than mine was, in their millions of millions? There is no category of human activity in which the dead...

  4. There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series. The ending of the final volume should leave the reader with the feeling that he has gone through the defining circumstances of Main...

  5. There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

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