Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it … - Djuna Barnes

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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that may be in torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.

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Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Pen Names: Lydia Steptoe

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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

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Thomas Hardy Virginia Woolf Milan Kundera Margaret Atwood Nathaniel Hawthorne

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