"Love is the most terrible, and also..." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.”

“If women only knew the extent of their power!”

“A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.”

“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”

“Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!”

“Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.”

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

“Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.”

“Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”