"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社
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