Quotation by

Heinrich Heine

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Death

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The quotation suggests that while sleep provides rest and death ends suffering, both are still part of existence, which can be painful or difficult. The ultimate relief, according to the author, would be to avoid the pain of life entirely by never coming into being.

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