Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.
Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.
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