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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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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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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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
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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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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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And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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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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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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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
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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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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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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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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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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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