Quote by Djuna Barnes
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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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Sleep
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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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Other Quotes from
Night, Nighttime
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Shadows fall on even the brightest hours. – Bryan Waller Proctor

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

Night is the mother of counsels. – George Herbert

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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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. – Albert Einstein

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