“The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.”

—  Heraclitus

Fragment 89
Plutarch, Of Superstition
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τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι

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