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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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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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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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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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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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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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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At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
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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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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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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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