I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep. ― Kristin Cashore

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. _ Friedrich Nietzsche

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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! _ Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

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On the last day of every character I've ever played, I lay the clothes out on the floor with the shoes and socks, so that it looks like the character has literally vanished. That's the way you have to leave them.

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This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day. _ Bernard Williams

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.

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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. _ Walter Scott

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Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

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