“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, book The Crack-Up

Variant: In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
Source: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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