"I awoke, only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep."
— Leonardo da Vinci

January 1, 1970

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This derives from a comment about him written by Sigmund Freud, in Leonardo Da Vinci (1916): He was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep.