The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
– Victor Hugo
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- The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness. – Victor Hugo
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- All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo
- There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. – Victor Hugo
- The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love. – Victor Hugo
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