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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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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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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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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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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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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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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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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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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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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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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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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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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
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Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
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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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