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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

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
Presence
Happiness
Absent
Rarely

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