Milan Kundera on sleep

Optimism is the opium of the people.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us… Only chance can speak to us.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep well?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’

Steven Wrightborn 1955

• Steven Wright

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900