Every night perhaps we accept the risk of experiencing, while we sleep, sufferings that we consider to be null and void because they will be endured only in the course of a sleep that we believe is without consciousness.
 Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah (1921). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source Sodom and Gomorrah
Topic risk consciousness
Date 1921
Language English
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Note Translated by John Sturrock
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