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All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

Vladimir Nabokov
Insomnia, Matter, Consciousness
Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.488, Vintage
All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.