Victor Hugo quote about love from 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.
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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 (1831). copy citation

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Author Victor Hugo
Source The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Topic love heart tree
Date 1831
Language English
Reference
Note Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood in 1888
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2610/2610-h/2610-h.htm

Context

“To her the fact of Phœbus being alive was everything. After the series of fatal shocks which had overturned everything within her, she had found but one thing intact in her soul, one sentiment,—her love for the captain. 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.
And the inexplicable point about it is that the more blind is this passion, the more tenacious it is. It is never more solid than when it has no reason in it.
La Esmeralda did not think of the captain without bitterness, no doubt.” source
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