Act II, scene 2, 12, line 243.
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“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”
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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