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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Maurice Maeterlinck quotes

Belgian Playwright, Writer August 29, 1862 – June 6, 1949

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Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth..."
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to..."
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
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. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest..."
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its..."
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. Maurice Maeterlinck
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
Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth. Maurice Maeterlinck
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
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is..."
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death..."
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are..."
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
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble..."
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. Maurice Maeterlinck
Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness. Maurice Maeterlinck

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