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The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but kn...

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He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gather...

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Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the su...

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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...

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People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it’s never seemed right to me. P...

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Hugh LaurieThe Gun Seller

From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps...

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Ian FlemingFrom Russia With Love

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Watchman what of the night?

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is o...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road r...

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This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool...

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I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow i...

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The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances and sta...

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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...

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The moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

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Jean-Paul SartreThe Respectable Prostitute/Lucifer and the Lord/In Camera

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness...

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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and b...

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And yet it seems so full of comfort and of strength, the night. In its great presence, our small sor...

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At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in hi...

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Some nights, we were a city of two.

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.

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Jim MorrisonThe Lords and the New Creatures

I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake a...

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I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just t...

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I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the M...

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Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything s...

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Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out...

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Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

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Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

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The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than ...

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John AshberySelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why li...

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... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlig...

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Later, I walked towards the dorm circle beside Alaska. The cicadas hummed their one-note song, just ...

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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

The night is dark and I am far from home.

But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms...

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John KeatsThe Complete Poems

Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

What hath night to do with sleep?

I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot sa...

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Now Pilon knew it for a perfect night. A high fog covered the sky, and behind it, the moon shone so ...

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John SteinbeckTortilla Flat

No matter how cheerful and blameless the day’s activities have been, when you wake in the middle of ...

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We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely a...

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You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late ni...

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I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was be...

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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in t...

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I realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I was sc...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Something moved on the grounds down beneath my window — cast a long spider of shadow out across the ...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in wh...

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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had me...

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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that ...

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He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...

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We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and wen...

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You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that ...

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For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of nightCandles and lanterns are dancin...

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Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages ar...

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Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middl...

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Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from d...

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Then she called Gansey.It rang twice, three times, and then: "Hello?"He sounded boyish and ordinary....

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that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

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Maggie StiefvaterLament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

Hurry up, before there's no more night left.

Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt...

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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Occasionally I looked up towards some vast old apartment with its shutters still open and where amph...

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...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a go...

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Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at ...

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I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick ...

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Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd si...

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A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the ...

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Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glass...

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All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide...

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Mary ButtsThe Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to st...

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I...

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It was nearing 9 O'clock, and the fist duck was drawing down. Behind the trees, the first star prick...

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The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems

There needs but so little to encourage beauty in our soul; so little to awaken the slumbering angels...

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The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowe...

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Mervyn PeakeWeird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped F...

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To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Steph...

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One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...

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I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was proli...

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