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“He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one;…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I looked at him on the bed. He coughed once and a trail of brownish dead blood came out of his mouth and ran…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of…

— Louise Erdrich

“like he could devote his thoughts to something other than when he might get to sleep. Like his mind was huge and whirring and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He closed his eyes and clenched his jaw until she thought he would break a tooth. No doubt he was giving himself a very…

— Jacquelyn Frank

“Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost…

— Stephen King

“One minute he was moving securely through time and space, in perfect coordination with other people; then, with no warning, he was out of…

— Russell Banks

“How was it even possible to know if your brain was malfunctioning, because the very thing you need to think it all through is…

— Mike A. Lancaster

“Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping, I discover…

— Walt Whitman

“Scraps and shreds of thoughts were simply swarming in his brain, but he could not catch at one, he could not rest on one,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky