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Quote by Clifton Fadiman
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. – Clifton Fadiman

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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Literature
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman

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Wine
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…rousing himself from a reverie, which had degenerated into an absolute snooze. – Thomas Ingoldsby, “The Spectre of Tappington,” 1837

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Sleep

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes

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Sleep

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Sleep

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep. – Rumi

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Sleep

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Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. – Albert Schweitzer

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“But” is a fence over which few leap. – German Proverb

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. – Amiel, Journal, 1884

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