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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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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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Service
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes

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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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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They arent turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. – William Trogdon

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

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