"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."

Cohen, Leonard on insomnia
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

Bacon, Francis on wisdom
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Glory is the shadow of virtue."

Proverb, Latin on glory   

"Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."

Joubert, Joseph on ideals and idealism   

"Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death."

Moliere on knowledge   

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Sandburg, Carl on poetry and poets
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"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on contrast
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

Aesop on anger
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on reality
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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

Bachelard, Gaston on language
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"That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low."

Sidney, Sir Philip on sleep
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

Proust, Marcel on dream
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality."

Lawrence, Thomas E. on dream
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"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

Allen, James on dream
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"Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams."

Basil, St. on dream   

"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on dream
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"'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale."

Shakespeare, William on decay
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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

Shakespeare, William on despair
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"Such as we are made of, such we be."

Shakespeare, William on destiny
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"The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on envy
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"God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on faces
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"O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Shakespeare, William on insomnia
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"The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water."

Ionesco, Eugene on memory
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"Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect."

Lion, The on regret
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on philosophers and philosophy   

"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."

Cicero, Marcus T. on philosophers and philosophy
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"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"

Tupper, Martin on memory
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"Man is a substance clad in shadows."

Sterling, John on humankind   

"Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary."

Baring, Maurice on memory   

"Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought."

Basile on memory   

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."

Benjamin, Walter on memory   

"Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text."

Benjamin, Walter on memory   

"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."

Pope, Alexander on memory
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"Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization."

Crane, Frederick E. on individuality   

"In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears."

Paul, Jean on tears
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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

Disraeli, Benjamin on grief
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