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"No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day."
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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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"Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
Knowledge

"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."
Morality

"And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time."
Growth

"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
Will

"There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind."
Philosophy

"All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness."
Philosophy

"Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life."
Philosophy

"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."
Love

"Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious."
Psychology

"The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise."
Art
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