"It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood."
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"The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night."
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"Show a little faith, there's magic in the night."
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"If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day."
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"The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night."
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"Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent."
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"When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there."
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"Peering from some high window; at the gold of November sunset (and feeling that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way)."
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"What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace"
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"When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day."
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"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul."
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"I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin."
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"You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes."
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"If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God."
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"Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun."
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"I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
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"People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction."
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"My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker."
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"Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden."
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