Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VH Victor HugoNovelist & poet · 1802–1885What this quote means
However long a hard season lasts, it is still a season, not the whole sky. A steadying reminder that light reliably returns.
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French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, and a towering voice of Romantic literature.
This line is among the quotes by Victor Hugo that readers return to on motivation, drawn from Les Misérables — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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