...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in — Hector Berlioz, Life and Letters of Berlioz
...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in — Hector Berlioz, Life and Letters of Berlioz
...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in — Hector Berlioz, Life and Letters of Berlioz
...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in — Hector Berlioz, Life and Letters of Berlioz
...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in — Hector Berlioz, Life and Letters of Berlioz
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...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

— Hector Berlioz, Life and Letters of Berlioz
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