"Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't."

-- Craig Silvey

#Sleep Quotes #World Quotes #Awake Quotes

“The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay”
“Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.60, Penguin
“The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely”
“The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.”

Source : "Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings (The Way of the Ruler)". Book by Han Fei translated by Burton Watson, 1996.
“The scare quotes burn off like fog.”
“I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.”
“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”
“There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.”

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