Night

Using a double meaning of the French word "nuit" ("night" and "is harmful"), the comic joker Raymond Devos said : "Se coucher tard nuit". That could be translated : "Going to bed late nightly is naughty".
In fact that's not true for everybody. If it is unusual, going to bed late is profitable. We can feel that early sleeping shortens our life.
Night is this marvellous step of the day where our nerves cease being solicited, our spirit is available for everything else far from daily triviality, impossible things and the maddest dreams become possible.
Of course, addition of these leads us to the feast, its colours, its illuminations, its enjoyments, its joy although... the story of the sad clown is not false.
After-all, let's be realistic, night also can be distressing when the sick man feels his pain (physically or mentally) increases with darkness. So we have to moderate. Likewise Rameau in his famous "Hymne à la nuit" (Night Song), when it's possible, we should have to appreciate the calm glamorous mystery and smoothness of shadow surrounding the night.
(copyright Jean-Michel Cagnon)