James Joyce. Ulysses (№ 436327)

As a physicist, he realized that out of 70 years of full human life, 20 years pass in a dream. As a philosopher, he knew that by the end of any allotted period of life for any person, only an infinitesimal fraction of his desires has time to come true. As a physiologist, he believed in the artificial smoothing of harmful factors that act mainly during sleep.