Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Sleep
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In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
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The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.
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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
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