“ We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. ”
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“ When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep down in all things, the silent overpowering victory of that which you love. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
“ For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; … ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
“ If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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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. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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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. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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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. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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