“Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.”
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“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland
“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
“Look down at me and you see a fool,
Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself.”
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Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself.”
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“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in street look not just indeferent but ugly...perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant" the breathing method”
― The Body
― The Body
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