I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night wit

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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These blessed candles of the night. – William Shakespeare, referring to stars, Merchant of Venice

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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in. – William Cowper

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