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

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Nights deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. – Leigh Hunt

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Shadows fall on even the brightest hours. – Bryan Waller Proctor

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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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