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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: "Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the..."
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future,..."
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Maurice Maeterlinck
(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality") Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "No great inner event befalls those who summon it not."
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed..."
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value..."
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the..."
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck quote: "How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to..."
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. Maurice Maeterlinck

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