Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
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Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
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Quand nous perdons un être aimé, ce qui nous fait pleurer les larmes qui ne soulagent point, c'est le souvenir des moments où nous ne l'avons pas assez aimé.
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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.
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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
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Don't be alarmed … They are a little annoyed because Spring is late... Leave it to me; I will settle it all.
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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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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
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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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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
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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.
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He's not quite blue yet, but that will come, you shall see! … Take him off quick to your little girl...
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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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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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Never mind... Don't cry... I will catch him again... Stepping to the front of the stage and addressing the audience. If any of you should find him, would you be so very kind as to give him back to us?... We need him for our happiness, later on...
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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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.
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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
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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.
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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.