Maurice Maeterlinck Short Quotes

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Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

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To know how not to know might well be the last word of wisdom.

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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

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He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

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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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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

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The infinite which our imagination seeks to embrace is nothing more than the indefinite.

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Scientifically, Nature is a riddle without a definite solution to satisfy man's curiosity.

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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.

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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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To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

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It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself.

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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

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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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Hypothesis follows on hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish-heap accumulates; and truth ever eludes us.

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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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Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean?

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It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

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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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I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

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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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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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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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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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