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Night

"I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. ... You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall - I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, And day and night yield one delight once more"

Fall Night Sweet
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Nate Dogg Rapper, Singer
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"When I met you last night baby Before you opened up your gap I had respect for ya lady But now I take it all back"

Night Baby Hip Hop
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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
Night

"I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us."

Night Sleep Dark
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Etta James Singer
Night

"I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight"

Past Night Sunday
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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
Night

"In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time."

Country Light Night
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Night

"Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit."

Night Change Retirement
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Night

"Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that."

People Night Dungeons
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Night

"I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars."

Night Stars Sky
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Franz Kafka Writer
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"Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire."

Night Fire Details
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Jimi Hendrix Musician, Guitarist
Night

"Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?"

Eye Night Purple
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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree."

Night Morning Garden
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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
Night

"Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat."

Night Breathing Faithful
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