What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852
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Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933