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There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and . . . it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power.

Source: The Space of Literature, Appendices, Sleep, Night, 1955; tr. 1982.
-- Maurice Blanchot, (Sep 22 1907-2003), French writer, philosopher,literary theorist; His best-known fictional works are Thomas the Obscure, an unsettlingly abstract novel about the experience of reading and loss; Death Sentence; Aminadab and The Most High about a bureaucrat in a totalitarian state.

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