….when one is awake at 3 a.m. then one sees life, and death, as they truly are, in their stark, terrible, hopeless reality; that at all other times of day one sees these infinite things through rose-tinted spectacles; that everyday life is the delusion is the occupational opiate which deceives us into optimistic speculation.
James Lees-Milne (1908-1997), English diarist. Extract from the entry in his diary for 7 July 1972.
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