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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
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The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
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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.
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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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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
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