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The line comes from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, a novel built around characters who endure long stretches of injustice before any relief arrives. Its placement in that work matters: Hugo had earned the right to the image by depicting the darkness at length.

What it offers is duration rather than denial. It does not claim the night is short, mild or deserved — only that it is finite. For anyone in a difficult period, that is often the more useful assurance, because it asks you to outlast rather than to reinterpret.

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