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1. "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
2. "Sobald wir etwas aussprechen, entwerten wir es seltsam. Wir glauben in die Tiefe der Abgründe hinabgetaucht zu sein, und wenn wir wieder an die Oberfläche kommen, gleicht der Wassertropfen an unseren bleichen Fingerspitzen nicht mehr dem Meere, dem er entstammt. Wir wähnen eine Schatzgrube wunderbarer Schätze entdeckt zu haben, und wenn wir wieder ans Tageslicht kommen, haben wir nur falsche Steine und Glasscherben mitgebracht; und trotzdem schimmert der Schatz im Finstern unverändert." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
3. "El dolor es inevitable, el sufrimiento es opcional." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
4. "Evitam sa ne gândim la moarte pâna când nu mai avem for?a, n-a? spune, de a gândi, ci chiar de a respira." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
5. "Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?" ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
6. "Las más bellas morales humanas están todas fundadas sobre la idea de que es preciso luchar y sufrir para purificarse, elevarse y perfeccionarse; pero ninguna trata de explicar por qué es necesario empezar de nuevo sin cesar. ¿Dónde va, pues, en qué abismos infinitos se pierde, desde eternidades sin límites, lo que se ha elevado en nosotros y no ha dejado vestigios? ¿Por qué si el Anima Mundi es soberanamente sabia ha querido estas luchas y estos sufrimientos que jamás han llegado y que, por consecuencia, jamás llegarán al fin? ¿Por qué no haber puesto, al primer esfuerzo, todas las cosas al punto de perfección a que nosotros creemos que tienden? ¿Por qué es preciso merecer su dicha? Pero ¿qué méritos pueden tener los que luchan o sufren mejor que sus hermanos, puesto que la fuerza o la virtud que les anima no la tienen más que porque un poder exterior la ha puesto en ellos más propiciamente que en otros?" ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
7. "Niemand is waarlijk mijn vriend, voordat we geleerd hebben in elkanders tegenwoordigheid te zwijgen." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
8. "(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
9. "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
10. "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
11. "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
12. "They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
13. "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
14. "To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
15. "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
16. "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
17. "A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
18. "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
19. "It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
20. "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
21. "No great inner event befalls those who summon it not." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
22. "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
23. "Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
24. "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
25. "If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
26. "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ..." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
27. "How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
28. "Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature." ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

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