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The infinite which our imagination seeks to embrace is nothing more than the indefinite.
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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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Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.
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My facts shall be as accurate as though they appeared in a practical manual or scientific monograph, but I shall relate them in a somewhat livelier fashion than such works would allow, shall group them more harmoniously together, and blend them with freerer and more mature reflections.
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What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
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To attempt to explain space by time and time by space is to seek to explain the night by darkness and the darkness by the night; it is to revolve hopelessly in the circle of the unknowable.
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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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Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
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The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.
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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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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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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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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
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In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.
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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
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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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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
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The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
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All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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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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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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Born:
August 29, 1862
Died:
May 6, 1949
(aged 86)
Bio:
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was a Fleming, but wrote in French.
Known for:
The Blue Bird (1905)
The Blind (1890)
Pelléas and Mélisande
Princess Maleine (1894)
Mary Magdalene (1910)
Most used words:
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man
alone
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earth
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