Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but…

J. M. Coetzee
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Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation. ✨ J. M. Coetzee (1980). Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin Group USA
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