Maurice Maeterlinck quotes - page 2

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? View quote
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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. View quote
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. View quote
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. View quote
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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. View quote
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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? View quote
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I know that you are looking for the Blue Bird, that is to say, the great secret of things and of happiness, so that Man may make our servitude still harder. ... I do not hear the Animals... Where are they?... All this concerns them as much as us... We, the Trees, must not assume the responsibility alone for the grave measures that have become necessary... On the day when Man hears that we have done what we are about to do, there will be terrible reprisals... It is right, therefore, that our agreement should be unanimous, so that our silence may be the same... View quote
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He's not quite blue yet, but that will come, you shall see! ... Take him off quick to your little girl... (Maurice Maeterlinck)