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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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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I count only the hours that are serene.
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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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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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We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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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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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
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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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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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