"To love beauty is to see light " — Victor-Marie Hugo

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Source: Endymion (1818)

Love is the life out of which are fashioned all the natural feelings, every emotion of man.

Source: The Hope of the Gospel (1871)

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Source: In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 27 (1849)

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