Victor Hugo: Quotes about love

Victor Hugo was French poet, novelist, and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“To love another person is to see the face of God.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

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“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

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“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: 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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“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”

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“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

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“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Source: Les Misérables

“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.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”

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“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

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“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

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“The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.”

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“Love is the only future God offers.”

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“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

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“It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.”

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“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

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