I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.
I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.
To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Live, but do not love, because love is simply a lie, only heartache waits in its wake.
I want to wake dead people to live alive". Seriously, I can make you living.
Pain is the enemy. It is a ghost. I will allow it to wash over me, through me, leaving nothing in its wake.
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