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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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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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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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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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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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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's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand 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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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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The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
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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 the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
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