"I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are."

-- Heidi Julavits

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #People Quotes

“When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.”
“You canâ€™t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.”
“A tiny fly can choke a big man.”
“You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that you know. Use those creative abilities with understanding abandon. Honor yourselves and move through the godliness of your being.”

Source : Jane Roberts, Seth (Spirit), Robert F. Butts (1994). “The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.436, New World Library
“The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.”
“I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.”
“Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.”

Source : Kenzō Tange (1970). “Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969; Architecture and Urban Design”
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms...”

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