"It’s terrible to lie in chains, To rot in dungeon deep, But it’s still worse, when you are free To sleep, and sleep, and sleep."

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Source : Taras Shevchenko (1964). “Selected works; poetry and prose”

Taras Shevchenko

#Lying Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Dungeons Quotes

“Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.”

Source : Roger Angell (2007). “Let Me Finish”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Make me immortal with a kiss.”

Source : Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 1 (1604).
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
“I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.”
“Willow and I definitely talked about doing a collaboration. She really loves rock music, so she wants to come on and get crazy with me on a track. Which I would love, because she has a fantastic voice.”
“Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan
“German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.”

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