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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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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Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
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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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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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