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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame quotes

Victor Hugo

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“The human heart . . . can contain only a certain quantity of despair. When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Oh! love! . . . That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Love is like a tree; it sprouts forth of itself, sends its roots out deeply through our whole being, and often continues to flourish greenly over a heart in ruins.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Fashions have wrought more harm than revolutions.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“I can never love a man who cannot protect me.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“a city like Paris is perpetually growing. It is only such cities that become capitals. They are funnels, into which all the geographical, political, moral, and intellectual water-sheds of a country, all the natural slopes of a people, pour; wells...” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“for a mother who has lost her child, it is always the first day. That grief never grows old. The mourning garments may grow white and threadbare, the heart remains dark.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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