“We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
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