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Quote by Jessamyn West
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. - Jes

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West

Other quotes by Jessamyn West

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. – Jessamyn West

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communication
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – Jessamyn West

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Humor
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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. – Jessamyn West

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Sleep
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. – Colette

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Sleep

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

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Sleep

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

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Sleep

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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Sleep

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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, theres a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it. – Gael Garcia Bernal

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Food

Jesus teaches us to forgive and Ive got to trust him on that one. – Billy Corgan

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno

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