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Quote by Leonard Cohen
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. – Leonard Cohen

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The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen

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Reflection
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Leonard Cohen
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and its overturned the order of the soul… – Leonard Cohen

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Soul
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Leonard Cohen
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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. – Leonard Cohen

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Pollution
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Sleep
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Bed is the poor mans opera. – Italian Proverb

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Sleep

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak–little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Sleep

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. – J. G. Ballard

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Sleep

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. – George Allen

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Sleep

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Our genes make us immortal. – The Secret of Life, PBS

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But in October what a feast to the eye our woods and groves present! The whole body of the air seems enriched by their calm, slow radiance. They are giving back the light they have been absorbing from the sun all summer. – John Burroughs (1837–1921), “The Falling Leaves,” Under the Maples

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