By night, an atheist half believes in God.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ~Vincent Van Gogh
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ~Frederick L. Knowles


By night, an atheist half believes in God. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
~George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy


Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery


Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline


What I take from my nights, I add to my days. ~Leon de Rotrou, "Vencelas," translated


Mine is the night, with all her stars. ~Edward Young

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