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Letter "S" » sleep
«I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?»
«I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.»
Author: Mary Stewart
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Keywords:
blanket,
blanketed,
blankets,
come round,
dark,
Drew,
merciful,
muffle,
muffling,
reached,
round,
rounder,
rounding,
round up,
sleep
«I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.»
Author: Will Shriner
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Comedian)
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About:
Death and dying,
Funny
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Keywords:
car,
Die in,
grandfather,
grandfathers,
passenger,
passengers,
screamed,
screaming,
screams,
sleep,
sleeping car,
sleep out,
sleep over,
The Cars,
yelling
«If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, stay awake»
Author: African Proverb
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About:
Men,
Women
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Keywords:
awake,
go to,
go to sleep,
harm,
say-so,
sleep,
stay,
swear,
swears,
swear in
«I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(
Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
constitution,
constitutions,
look upon,
morning,
refreshed,
refreshes,
refreshing,
rise,
sleep
«I am watching your chest rise and falllike the tides of my life,and the rest of it alland your bones have been my bedframeand your flesh has been my pillowI am waiting for sleepto offer up the deepwith both hands»
Author: Ani Difranco
(
Guitarist,
Singer,
Song Writer)
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Keywords:
bedframe,
boned,
bones,
both,
chest,
chests,
deep,
fall,
flesh,
fleshed,
hands,
has-been,
offer,
offer up,
pillow,
pillows,
rise,
rising tide,
sleep,
The Deep,
tides,
waiting,
watching
«If I am dreaming let me never awake, If I am awake let me never sleep.»
«If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.»
«I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep, I wrote in the dark»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
In The Dark,
paper,
piece,
piece of paper,
piece of writing,
pillow,
pillows,
put to sleep,
sleep,
The Dark,
writing paper,
wrote
«Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.»