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• When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.

  Cate Blanchett

  Style, Moments, Find Me

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• When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Sleep, Voice

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

  Emilie Autumn

  Life, Dream, Sleep

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• I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

  Louis C. K.

  Life, Sleep, Long

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• With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Awake

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• O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Slumber, Care

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 22

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• We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Two

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Matter, Consciousness, Poor

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.488, Vintage

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• Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

  William Wycherley

  Book, Mistress, Ems

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

  Sarah Dessen

  Loneliness, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.156, Penguin

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  We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• My life has been regulated by insomnia.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Sleep, Has Beens

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Baby, Sleep, Drawing

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• There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Sleep, Secret, Way

  Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Space of Literature”, p.264, U of Nebraska Press

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• A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

  Boris Pasternak

  Fall, Light, Upset

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• Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. Its like ache. Youre not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out whats reasoning the pain.

  Judith Owen

  Pain, Medicine, Chaos

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• Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Sleepers, Daytime

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• Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

  Alistair Sinclair

  Four, Causes, Bedtime

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• It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

  Chris Frantz

  Two, Firsts, Week

  "Coming at rock from odd angles" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2003.

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• It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

  Gregory Bateson

  Principles, Patterns, Impossible

  "Not Ours to Exploit" by Terry Tempest Williams, progressive.org. February 23, 2012.

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• I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Dark, Night, Black

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  Ulrich Beck

  Fate, Community, Firsts

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• A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will surely never dream of making, I don't say great discoveries, but even minor observations about sleep. He scarcely knows that he is asleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.69, Modern Library

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• If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

  Dale Carnegie

  Acceptance, Night, Self

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.78, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Sleep, Rivals

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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