"I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark"

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Source : Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

Mary Stewart

#Pain Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Iâ€™ve never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe Iâ€™d have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problemâ€¦It was a gradual process but I changed myself.”
“I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.
“If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”
“Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.”

Source : David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
“You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.”
“How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!”

Source : Samuel Lover (1842). “Handy Andy”, p.225
“Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?”

Source : "Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.
“Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.”

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