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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
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