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

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

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