“We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.”
“Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Context: You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
Introductory Chapter. Variant: This, therefore, is a faded dream of the time when I went down into the dust and noise of the Eastern market-place, and with my brain and muscles, with sweat and constant thinking, made others see my visions coming true. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
“A few honest men are better than numbers.”
Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft
“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”
