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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

«When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.»
«How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.»
«At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.»
«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.»
«All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing»
«We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.»
«Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck (Essayist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Living | Keywords: an event
«Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck (Essayist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Happiness | Keywords: absent
«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»
«They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.»