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" Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution. "

Philippe Petit

Brain

Night

Sleep

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You

Tragedy

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Think

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Art

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Parents