Victor Hugo Quotes About Love
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Loving is half of believing.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Love is the only future God offers.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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