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Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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