Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest d…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
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