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• Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

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  Gratitude, Art, Wall

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1905). “Old Fashioned Flowers: And Other Out-of-door Studies”

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• The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

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  Strong, Reality, Events

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.79, 谷月社

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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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• 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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• All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

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  Love, Beautiful, Mom

  Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann (1971). “Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann”

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• It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

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  Death, Goal, Guides

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.18, 谷月社

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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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• You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

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  Vision, Elements, Better Life

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• It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

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  Happiness, Freedom, Breathing

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.83, 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

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  Love, Men, Soul

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1910). “The Inner Beauty”

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• The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

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  Justice, Doe, World

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1907). “The Measure of the Hours”

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• To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

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  Yesterday, Misunderstood, Today

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.92, 谷月社

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• I count only the hours that are serene.

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  Hours, Serene

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1907). “The Measure of the Hours”

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• He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

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  Eye, Love At First Sight, Darkness

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

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• To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

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  Past, Masters, Saddened

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.41, 谷月社

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• I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

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  Judging, Deeds, Judgment

  MAURICE MAETERLINCK (1917). “A MIRACLE OF SAINT ANTONY AND FIVE OTHER PLAYS”

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• The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

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  Waiting, Soul, Hovering

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1910). “The Inner Beauty”

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• The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.

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  Numbers, People, Progress

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• It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

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  Important, Should, Accord

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• To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

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  Suffering, Needs, Be Good

  Maurice Maeterlinck “Works: The treasure of the humble, tr. by A. Sutro”

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• The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

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  Sadness, Misery, Melancholy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.36, 谷月社

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• Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

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  Atheism, Rays, May

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.39, 谷月社

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