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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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Night is the mother of counsels. – George Herbert

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

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

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