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“Awake, dear heart, awake; thou hast slept well; Awake.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“The one thing I love in life is to sleep.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Every habit he’s ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.” Jack London, White Fang

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