“I will pick you up in my carriage, and we shall soon be in Paris. There, my dear, is the only life for superior people. We are only at ease among our peers; in any other society one suffers. Besides, Paris is the intellectual capital of the world, the stage of your success: cover quickly the distance that divides you from it. Do not let your ideas stagnate in a country town, get in touch at once with the great men who represent the nineteenth century. Approach the Court and power. Neither distinctions nor honours come in search of talent whose star shines only in a little town.”
Honoré de Balzac, “Lost Illusions”
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