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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work, and helps make something of the world.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“Death was a friend, and sleep was death’s brother.” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life;...” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“He had explained when we were young that when things were very bad his soul went to sleep.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“No one who will not sleep can ever wake.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, Cloquet thought, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.” Woody Allen, “Side Effects” - 1980

“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot?” Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” - 1953

“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine, Doug.” Ray Bradbury, “Dandelion Wine” - 1957

“Early to bed and early to rise . . . makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me. It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man’s life—the priceless moments that will never come back to him again—being wasted in mere brutish sleep.” Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” - 1889

“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her?” George MacDonald, “At the Back of the North Wind” - 1871

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