The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Victor Hugo
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In the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera," Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes, “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only…” The quote above is a clear reference to Robert Frost’s poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," with the line "And the power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories; / That it has come to be disbelieved." In this poem, Frost writes, “And the power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories; / That it has come to be disbelieved."

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