„I have found nothing half so goodAs my long-planned half solitude,Where I can sit up half the nightWith some friend that has the witNot to allow his looks to tellWhen I am unintelligible.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„Your photograph is all I have: it is with me from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream about you to the last moment when I think of you and of death at night.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.“
— Charles Bukowski
„One winter night, at half past nine,Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,I had come home, too late to dine“
— Lewis Carroll