1. Notes: 226 / 10 months ago  from ubu507
   

   Elle aimait trop le bal, c’est ce qui l ‘a tuée..  [Victor Hugo, Fantômes]

   Waltz of Death by Gustave Adolf Mossa, 1906

   Watercolor and black chalk

   from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

   thanks to ubu507

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2. Notes: 23 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   To contemplate is to look at shadows.
   Victor Hugo
   [photo from LIFE]

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3. Notes: 39 / 2 years ago 
   

   There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

   from Les misérables by Victor Hugo

   Rio de Janeiro, April 1925

   [found/photographer unknown]

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4. Notes: 62 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   The Conscience,1877 [after Victor Hugo ’s poem] 

   by François Chifflart

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