"I will be Chateaubriand or nothing."
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Written at the age of 15 in one of his notebooks (c. 1817), as quoted in The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century (1897) by Georges Pellissier
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Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885
französischer Schriftsteller
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