Victor Hugo · The source reads: “To love, or to have loved,—that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” · The narrator's reflection as Marius and Cosette fall in love in the Luxembourg garden; the familiar form smooths the 1887 translation's punctuation.
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Victor Hugo · The narrator of Les Misérables, in the chapter where Fantine's story turns dark; the Hapgood translation of 1887 is the wording in English.
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W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.
Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.
Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.
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