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In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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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No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.
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There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.
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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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To be good we must needs have suffered but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
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I count only the hours that are serene.
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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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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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Wisdom requires no form her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
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I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, 'Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde,' which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
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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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