Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.… We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

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Michel de Montaigne · The source reads: “Il faut être toujours bottè et prêt á partir. One should always have one's boots on, and be ready to leave.”

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