Quote by Angela Carter
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the s

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. – Angela Carter

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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. – Angela Carter

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Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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Sleeping alone, except under doctors orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge. – Marlene Dietrich

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Sleep

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

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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. – Thomas Aquinas

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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. – Lewis Mumford

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