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"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."
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"That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep."
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"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."
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"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday."
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"Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams."
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"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep."
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"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."
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"Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day."
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"A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae."
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"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."
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"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
Heart
"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."
Rest
"No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory."
Family
"The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age."
Relationship
"Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off-all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears."
Emotion
"The hearts of great men can be changed."
Transformation
"Labor conquers all things."
Work
"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
Humanity
"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."
Journey
"And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!"
Tragedy
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