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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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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancien...

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Yo me salgo desnudo a la calle,maduro de versos perdidos.I step naked into the streetripe with lost ...

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Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...

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The night has a thousand eyesAnd the day but oneYet the light of the bright world dies with the dyin...

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The Night has a thousand eyes The Day but one Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dyin...

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Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hu...

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I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air...

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Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't wo...

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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. W...

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I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I...

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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the nigh...

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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refriger...

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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies...

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It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice wa...

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who ...

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When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silen...

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When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made ...

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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...

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Daylight does not lend itself to terror: objects and people are plain to see; and we encounter there...

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Guy de MaupassantA Day in the Country and Other Stories

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so b...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling ...

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The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-l...

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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says,...

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The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of ni...

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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who loo...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began...

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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night fr...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them...

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And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents ...

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And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents ...

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their ...

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, ...

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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!The frontier town and citadel of night!The watershed of Time,...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...

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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

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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