"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria
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