Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation. (J. M. Coetzee)

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

J. M. Coetzee

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