“By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night—no, more than night.”
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 16.
Letters, Book IV
“Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.”
— Virginia Woolf, book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando
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