The Hunchback of Notre Dame Quotes

“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

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“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

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“I can never love a man who cannot protect me.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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“a city like Paris is perpetually growing. It is only such cities that become capitals. They are funnels, into which all the geographical, political, moral, and intellectual water-sheds of a country, all the natural slopes of a people, pour; wells...”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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“for a mother who has lost her child, it is always the first day. That grief never grows old. The mourning garments may grow white and threadbare, the heart remains dark.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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“The human heart . . . can contain only a certain quantity of despair. When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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