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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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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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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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I count only the hours that are serene.
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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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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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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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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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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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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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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
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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 value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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