“This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.”

— Michael Ondaatje, book Coming Through Slaughter

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“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”

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“The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.
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“This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.”

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“And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“We have lived and loved together
Through many changing years;
We have shared each other's gladness,
And wept each other's tears.”

Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher

We have lived and loved together, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that
and the years before that
you were not.”

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"If the philosopher is right"
Red Bird (2008)

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

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“This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.”

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