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I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
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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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
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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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And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
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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 decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
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Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.
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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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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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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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I count only the hours that are serene.
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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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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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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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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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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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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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