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"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again and the great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves and even loved in spite of ourselves."

-Victor Hugo, Les miserables

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Og clickbait

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French writer Victor Hugo on a vintage postcard

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Excellent!

My digital painting from 2016 when I still had time to actually put an effort into art, practicing and learning. Now is the doodle/cartoon era

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I think he looks the appropriate age (11-12)

how do u do his name’s Gavroche 

Trying to figure out some character design and experimenting with my human artstyle \ouo/

I made him look a bit too old tho )’: 

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Phantom is only the longest running on Broadway.

Les Miserables is still in its original run in London's West End, starting in 1985. (Phantom is too, but it started in 1986..so only the future will tell who will win at West End.) And..of course...Off Broadway...The Fantasticks' 42 year run will be difficult to beat for either of them, but they are closing in on 30, so, who knows?

BROADWAY MUSICALS THIS SEASON! 

If only I lived in New York! 

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Does Marius groan at that?

The Les Amis appear to Marius as spirits. 

"I am agog!" Marius cries. 

"I am a ghost." says Grantaire.

#lesmis #pun

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Marty Stu, the Hedgehog

The Hedgehog Writer

#mary sue #marty stu #hedgehog #writing

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[T]he political implications of popular speech and popular laughter are illustrated by one of Hugo’s most striking creations, the slangy street urchin Gavroche - and beyond him, by the personalized figure of Paris, the city of revolutions. Gavroche, the vagrant boy familiar with thieves and prostitutes, the gamin who sings obscene songs and has a poet’s mastery of argot, is truly a child of the big city. […] And of course Paris, the gigantic parent, is the figure of the people. The metaphor works both ways. The capital is the populace and the populace is the gamin - with his teasing lightheartedness and irrepressible laughter, but also his grim love of freedom and courage. “To depict the child is to depict the city.” If the city populace is comparable to a child, it is because it still has to be formed morally and politically. The mob, the masses, have a potential that needs to be educated, elevated, or as Hugo puts it, “sublimed.”

Victor Brombert, Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

I find this a compelling response to the common criticism that Hugo has few working class people portrayed as individuals on the barricade.  Brombert’s response appears to be that the city is embodied in Gavroche, and that gives it more moral/political representation than any proletariat revolutionary cell could.

(via hernaniste)

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Edward Steichen: photograph (1902) of Rodin with “Le Penseur” (designed 1881) and the marble sculpture of Victor Hugo (1901).

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A small and very adorable article about Victor Hugo and his grandchildren from the New York Times in 1886. 

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I have to agree. Wil is very pretty in this photo (for a teenage boy, that is)

My friend, looking over at my screen: “OH MY GOD, she’s so pretty!”

Me: “That’s— that’s Wil Wheaton.”

My friend: “She’s pretty!”

Me: “…yeah, she’s really pretty.”

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It's been a couple years since I bought a graphic novel, but this is tempting.

From The Man Who Laughs, coming soon from SelfMadeHero - Art by Mark Stafford

Based on the novel by Victor Hugo

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Administrivia

Just in case there is anyone reading who was interested in knowing more about who I am, I just created an "About" page, which links to a few of my other websites.

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Wonderful posters. Looking forward to the film.

The dream come true part 2

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A sketch by Victor Hugo of his brother, Eugène being injured in a duel, during their youth in Spain.

The image and text comes from "Victor Hugo and His Time" by Alfred Barbou, 1882, p. 40

#Victor Hugo #Sketch #Spain #Duel