"Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all."
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"Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes wonderful, or wonderful as a moment to be shared between performer and people, but that's it. There might be a strong bond between you and the people, a transformative night, but as a live record it might not translate."
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"On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path.""
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"I record all night and sleep all day."
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"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night."
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"Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day."
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"Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?"
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"I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk."
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"The day is for honest men, the night for thieves."
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"Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day."
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"There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall."
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"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."
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"The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly."
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"Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead."
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"My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time."
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"Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?"
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"The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day."
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"The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one."
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"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years."
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"When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure."
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