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“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. To love is a consummation.”

— Victor Hugo

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Wikiquote: Victor Hugo
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Context

Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.

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Hugo, Victor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Victor Hugo. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo

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