There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him. - Maurice Blanchot

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Maurice Blanchot: "There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him."

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According	Agreed	Become	Bewitching
Clauses	Convention	Dangerous	Domesticated
Entrusts	Force	Himself	Instrument
Master	Pact	Power	Secret
Serve	Serves	Slave	Sleep
Something	Surrender	Treaty

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