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

Other quotes by Djuna Barnes

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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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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best
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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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Night is the mother of counsels. – George Herbert

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

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

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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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. – Bertrand Russell

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great

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. – Sophocles

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Nature

For Around the World in 80 Plates we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco… It was amazing. – Curtis Stone

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amazing

Living in this modern toxic world, we are all slowly being poisoned to death. – Carrie Latet, 2006

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Society