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Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, ...

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...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his hear...

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It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been ...

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The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

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Louis SimpsonPeople Live Here: Selected Poems 1948-1983

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except...

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Meindert DeJongThe Little Cow and the Turtle

I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never disco...

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From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin...

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My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to ge...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surf...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being a...

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Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...

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Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T...

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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is ...

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No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them ...

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