# Quote — Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

> For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun’s bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.”

- Author: [Max Beerbohm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm.md)
- Book: [Zuleika Dobson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson.md)
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