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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. – Djuna Barnes

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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the others bed, where the rival perfects the lovers imperfections. – Djuna Barnes

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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasnt the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how lifes lived before it gets to the parlor door. – Djuna Barnes

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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. – Walt Whitman

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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. – Ovid

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