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Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is calle

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. – Charlotte Brontë

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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

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