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These are various quotes I have found over time. A few I know not the source. Most are easily found in quote databases on the Internet.

"It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A 'bad night' is not always a bad thing." ~ Brian W. Aldiss

"True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky." ~ Jim Bishop

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does." ~ Jorge Luis Borges

"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this." ~ Lord Byron

"Goodnight." ~ Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), last words

"I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night." ~ Margery Cuyler

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." ~ William Dement

"Omnes una manet nox Et calcanda semel via leti. (One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.)" ~ Horace

"Daylight follows a dark night." ~ Maasai Proverb

"And none could gaze on Phanes with their eyes, save holy Night alone." ~ Orpheus

"...the Nurse of the Gods is immortal Night." ~ Orpheus

"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night." ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

"Some praise the Lord for Light, the living spark; I thank God for the Night, the healing dark." ~ Robert William Service

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." ~ Wallace Stevens

"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything." ~ Henri Poincare

"I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?" ~ Unknown

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." ~ Vincent van Gogh

"Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don�t see that the darkness has a purpose � thought we may not understand it � and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!" ~ Margaret Weis

"For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others." ~ Eudora Welty

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." ~ Sarah Williams

"The tasks are done and the tears are shed. Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover; Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled, Are healed with the healing that night has shed." ~ Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Internet sources:
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