The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
Sable Night, mother of Dread and Fear, Upon the world dim darkness doth display, And in her vaulty prison stows the Day.
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Life was to these a dream fulfilled, And death a starry night.
It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.
In the night all cats are gray.[translation by John Willis Clark]By night all cats are grey.[translation by John Ormsby][De noche todos los gatos son pardos.]
I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
Each night ought to have its menu.[Chaque nuit doit avoir son menu.]
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.[Furcht vor der Nacht. Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht.]