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Epic poem1 quote
From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom? — The Epic of Gilgamesh · 1000 BCHip hop1 quote
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death. — Nas · 1994Philosophical literature1 quote
Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. — Nicolas Chamfort · 1796