“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”

“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”

— Victor Hugo

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Title: Wikiquote: Victor Hugo
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Context

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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Hugo, Victor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Victor Hugo. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo

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