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

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Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine. – Author Unknown

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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. – Gaston Bachelard

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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. – Plutarch

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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. – Marcel Proust

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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

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