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We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

Thomas Browne
Sleep, House, Waking
'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 12
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.