“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
1790s
“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variant: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.
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Disputed
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