Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

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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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  Worry, Shadow, Events

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.17, 谷月社

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• At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

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  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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• Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

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  Absent, Knows

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

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  Life, Humble, Reality

  Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul P. Ricchio (1984). “The Blue Bird ; And, The Betrothal”

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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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  Trying, Diminish

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.20, 谷月社

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

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  Soul, Unrest, Unhappiness

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• The living are just the dead on holiday

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  Death, Holiday

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• Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

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  Positive, Ideas, Greater

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Real, Communication

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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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  Loneliness, Dark, Different

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

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  Soul, World, Whole

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.56, 谷月社

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• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

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  Men, Years, Bees And Honey

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• We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

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  Inspirational Life, Water, Judging

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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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  Love, Relationship, Sympathy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.60, 谷月社

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• 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.

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  Dark, Thinking, Glasses

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• Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

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  Chance, Life Happiness, Disaster

  "Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck".

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• I am moved by the light.

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  Light, Moved

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1919). “The measure of the hours, tr. by A. Teixeira de Mattos”

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• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

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  Death, Education, Pain

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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• No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

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  Humble, Men, Perfect

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.127, 谷月社

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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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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.44, 谷月社

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• We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

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  Happiness, Happy, Joy

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Inner Peace, Firsts

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

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  Nature, Flower, Humanity

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社

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• At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

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  Past, Men, Path

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• Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

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  Wisdom, Flames, Thrones

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.51, 谷月社

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