Who said “The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.”?

“Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.”

“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.”

“Shadow owes its birth to light.”

“Night is the mother of counsels.”

“Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.”

“Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.”

“The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.”

“Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else -- and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?”

“Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.”

“We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.”