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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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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Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.
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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.
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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
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