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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

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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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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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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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 is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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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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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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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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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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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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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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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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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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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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