When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follo… - Flann O'Brien
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follo…
- Flann O'Brien
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. - Flann O'Brien
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. - Flann O'Brien
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.
Rome wasn't built in A.D. - Flann O'Brien
Rome wasn't built in A.D.
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get… - Flann O'Brien
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get…
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. - Flann O'Brien
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONL… - Flann O'Brien
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONL…
I am completely half afraid to think. - Flann O'Brien
I am completely half afraid to think.
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. - Flann O'Brien
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
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