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Ramakrishna Spiritual Leader
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"The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness."

Night Morning Sight
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent."

Night Silence Echoes
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way."

People Thinking Night
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one."

Heart Night Wine
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Night

"Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head."

Lying Night Over You
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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin."

Night Rap Friday
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man."

Night Ghetto Dope
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Night

"The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore."

Night Summer Rain
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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy."

Men Light Night
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Lauren Oliver Author
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"Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE."

Night Coffee Chocolate
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way."

Long Night Meditation
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!"

Night Moon Shine Bright
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Night

"I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything."

Night Ocean Numbness
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Georges Bernanos Novelist, Essayist
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"Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?"

World Night Sadness
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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light."

Light Night Baby
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Freddie Mercury Musician, Singer
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"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."

Night Might Roger
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Joseph Heller Novelist
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"The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts."

World Night Nuts
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Night

"We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night."

Night Grace Rude
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