"Je voudrais, un jour, avoir un nom si connu, si populaire, si célèbre, si glorieux enfin, qu'il m'authorisât, à p[éter] dans le monde, et que le monde trouvât ça tout naturel."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. — As quoted in the entry for 13 October 1855, in the Journals of Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, also known as Mémoires de la vie littéraire, vol. I (1887), translated by Lewis Galantière