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And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Umberto Eco
Sleep, Long, People
Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Umberto Eco
Sleep, Unhappy, Flesh
Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

Umberto Eco
Sleep, Monsters, Fiction
Umberto Eco (1995). “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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