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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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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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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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