Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le remede.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Topic

Sleep and death Sleep The human condition

Author

Nicolas Chamfort

Source

Maximes et Pensées

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Occupation

Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.

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Time
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Time
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