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Victor Hugo quotes about love

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“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer...” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this conviction the blind man possesses.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“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
“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
“The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way people do fall in love,...” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not need to understand the words that they utter.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“There are fathers who do not love their children; there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those three letters of that word: She.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I can never love a man who cannot protect me.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“To die for lack of love is horrible.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Love is the folly of men and the wit of God.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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