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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doub...

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doub...

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Love in a night shall live and die,Love in a day shall wing and fly;Love in the Spring shall last an...

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Aleister CrowleyWhite Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil

The mirror's light sparks in the eyes,And horrified, my lids drawn tight,I step back to that realm o...

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Alexander BlokThe Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow ...

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Night is irregular. What is not done in the daytime becomes possible at night: murder and sex and th...

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Alexei PanshinThe Thurb Revolution

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every nig...

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Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

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Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonde...

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May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumo...

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I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat...

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Anne BrontëBest Poems of the Brontë Sisters

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night wi...

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Night is a world lit by itself

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onT...

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The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, gua...

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Dark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is ...

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The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is...

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I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday mornin...

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Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least o...

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There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. The...

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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a differe...

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And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mo...

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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning...

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. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination cou...

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When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are ...

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One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'...

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For, he (The Devil) observed, the issue of the great battle of Good and Evil had been otherwise sett...

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I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a who...

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I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...

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There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets...

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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood call...

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There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are d...

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It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

Will," she said softly, sleepily. "Last night--" You were kind to me, she was going to say. Thank yo...

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Cassandra ClareClockwork Prince

I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,...

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Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuveLa pleine lune s'étalait,Et la solennité de la nuit, comme...

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Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and...

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to ligh...

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I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no ra...

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Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of n...

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At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...

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Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of...

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Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of...

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Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there we...

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A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising t...

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A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much...

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Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained ...

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T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even ...

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Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the gro...

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He watched him stoke the flames, God's own firedrake. The sparks rushed upward and died in the starl...

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He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...

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Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and...

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When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sl...

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Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...

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Daphne du MaurierEchoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes w...

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There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a l...

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A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realiza...

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In the dark I rest,unready for the light which dawnsday after day,eager to be shared.Black silk, she...

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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New ...

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How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My...

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The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is em...

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Ah, this delicious night air,' she said, luxuriously sniffing in the coolness. 'Night air and garden...

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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the w...

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You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigg...

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons o...

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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Marad...

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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. S...

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Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our...

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We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormento...

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Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No...

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Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more...

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War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there wo...

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We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our na...

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This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very str...

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One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror ...

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Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles...

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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a...

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I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't...

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And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantme...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something t...

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I had gone...to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wa...

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Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of ...

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Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and hav...

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To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a ...

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