Fragment 26
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Man kindles a light for himself in the night-time, when he has died but is alive. The sleeper, whose vision has been put out, lights up from the dead; he that is awake lights up from the sleeping.
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[ Hide commentary ]Most commentators believe that Clement, the source for this fragment, added the words in brackets to Heraclitus' own as interpretation. These words are not included in Burnet's translation.