Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a… — Nicolas Chamfort

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

In the original French

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

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