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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Till now, I had been a great sleeper, but a total privation of repose, with other alarming symptoms which have accompanied it, even to this time, persuaded me I had but a short time to live”
Confessions, Book VI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
The insomnia that followed the attack, which paradoxically calmed him by persuading him he would soon die.
Citation: "Till now, I had been a great sleeper, but a total privation of repose, with other alarming symptoms which have accompanied it, even to this time, persuaded me I had but a short time to live" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book VI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q6)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
