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

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

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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! – William Shakespeare

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

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