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  • "I don't remember anything about the days before I was a ghoul," said the famous writer Victor Hugo.†  (source)
  • Da Vinci, Botticelli, Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau...Jacques Saunière.†  (source)
  • Some of the people mentioned are Schumann, Clara Wieck, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Beethoven, Joachim, Richard Wagner, Hans von Bulow, Anton Rubinstein, Frederic Chopin, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Hiller, Hummel, Czerny, Rossini, Cherubini, Paganini, Mendelssohn, etc., etc. Liszt appears to have been a decent man, very generous and modest, though exceptionally vain.†  (source)
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  • That author, Victor Hugo, must've been a real fun guy," I told Will in one of our tutoring sessions.†  (source)
  • On the avenue Victor Hugo, Lavier's taxi slowed down and pulled up in front of one of Paris's few exceptions to tradition-an open plastic-domed public telephone.†  (source)
  • Rousseau, Marie Curie, Louis Braille, Victor Hugo—†  (source)
  • He knew that in a few minutes Natalie would be leaving the clinic on the Avenue Victor Hugo, in the banlieue of Aubervilliers.†  (source)
  • When he returned to Paris as a married man, in a position to see him under more formal circumstances, Victor Hugo had already died.†  (source)
  • Somebody read Victor Hugo-believe it or not I have officers who read and ever since then we've been Lee's Miserables.†  (source)
  • Farther back is a large, glassed-in bookcase with sets of Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Lever, three sets of Shakespeare, The World's Best Literature in fifty large volumes, Hume's History of England, Thiers' History of the Consulate and Empire, Smollett's History of England, Gibbons Roman Empire and miscellaneous volumes of old plays, poetry, and several histories of Ireland.†  (source)
  • She walked south towards the Seine and finally found a room at a small hotel, the Victor Hugo on rue Copernic.†  (source)
  • I was on my way for lunch to meet my mother, who was going out on the street for the first time after a long illness, and I was feeling ecstatically happy when suddenly, as I was coming in to the Avenue Victor Hugo, which is a street in Paris, I bumped into a chap without any nose.†  (source)
  • The little shabby books had come by post from a firm in Paternoster Row called Private Tutorials, Ltd-a whole education which began with 'Reading Without Tears' and went methodically on to the Reform Bill and Lord Palmerston and the poems of Victor Hugo.†  (source)
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