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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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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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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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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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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson

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And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I dont have to go out and enjoy it. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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