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"Religions get lost as people do."
People
"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
Positive
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Beauty
"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."
Life
"Writers speak stench."
Writing
"Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins."
People
"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
Nature
"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
Being
"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."
Life
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
Beginning
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"There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning."
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"Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast."
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"I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel."
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
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"Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep."
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"Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis."
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"I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it."
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"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'"
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"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
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"The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep."
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