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“Man thalabal ula sahiral layali. He who wants glory will work late into the night. -184”
“It was the time of night that precedes dawn and is without perspective or reason. It was the hour when regret and fear overwhelm hope and courage and when all that is ugly in us is magnified and wh...”
“Nothing was more beautiful than a night sky dusted with stars. Nothing was more terrible than a night sky scrawled with a thousand destinies. Night was inevitable. Like me.”
“Night heralded sleep and shadows, demons and dreams. But I heralded the night.”
“In day-time we investigate, but at night believe.”
“One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirr...”
“It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison.”
“Tread not into the fearsome nightBut pull the covers high,Step not into the wild dark woodFor the Hobbers are dancing nigh”
“it is the deep-black-sky quiet time of night, which is the halfway time between the sun setting and the sun rising when even the night animals are quietas if they, like day animals, take a break in...”
“And yet it seems so full of comfort and of strength, the night. In its great presence, our small sorrows creep away, ashamed. The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so ...”
“With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.”
“In the darkness and the snow, the street is emptyand it is just the night, the ice and me.”
“The only thing Id understand right from the very beginning was that our love was supported by loneliness. That neither one of us could haul ourselves up out of the deadly numbness we felt when we l...”
“Now Pilon knew it for a perfect night. A high fog covered the sky, and behind it, the moon shone so so that the forest was filled with a gauze-like light. There was none of the sharp outline we thi...”
“Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night.”
“There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.”
“Nights are rebellious, they only demand the truth”
“It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables.”
“Tahtahta-ha-ha' clattered the wheels. A lamp outside the window nodded to him. Another. A third. The lamps ceased to wink. Night without winking clung to the windows.("Adam")”
“At night is when my mind comes alive.”
