"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact."
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Source: Pages from the Goncourt Journal. Book by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, 2007.
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