Sleep and death

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I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death.

Nas

N.Y. State of Mind

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Topic

Sleep and death Sleep

Speaker

Nas

Source

N.Y. State of Mind Illmatic

Medium

Song

Genre

Hip hop

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Nas and Chris Martin. "N.Y. State of Mind." Performed by Nas. Illmatic. Columbia Recordings, 1994.

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

Nicolas Chamfort

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Topic

Sleep and death Sleep The human condition

Author

Nicolas Chamfort

Source

Maximes et Pensées

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Citation

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

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

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Topic

Impermanence Sleep and death Equality in death

Source

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Akkadian

Time

1000 BC 1000s BC 11th century BC

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Original Citation

Anonymous. The Epic of Gilgamesh, n. d.

Current Citation

Anonymous. The Epic of Gilgamesh, edited by Benjamin R. Foster. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.