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Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving un

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them. – C.S. Lewis

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. – C.S. Lewis

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Hell
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C.S. Lewis
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons. – C.S. Lewis

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Bible, The
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Sleep
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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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Sleep

Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. – JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002

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Sleep

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. – E. M. Cioran

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Sleep

Somnus lets her poppies fall most plentifully on those having a cool head, an empty stomach, tired muscles, a quiet conscience, and warm feet. – Author unknown, quoted by Rachel Brooks Gleason, “Sleep,” 1867

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Sleep

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Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. – Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922

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People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. – Arlen Specter

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I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. – Jay London

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