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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Age: 86 †
Born: 1862
Born: August 29
Died: 1949
Died: May 5
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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
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Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
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At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
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The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
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