“At fifteen years, twenty at most, one has "come from the press."”

— Alphonse Daudet

A quinze ans, vingt ans tout au plus, on est déjà achevé d'imprimer.
Source: Notes sur la vie (published posthumously 1899), P. 77; translation p. 369.

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A quinze ans, vingt ans tout au plus, on est déjà achevé d'imprimer.

Notes sur la vie (published posthumously 1899)

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