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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Belgian - Dramatist | August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Words Try Soon How Diminish Express

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Believe Doors Nothing Will Happen

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Love Memory Tears Loved Enough Lose

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

Maurice Maeterlinck

Soul Happy Be Happy Only Unhappiness

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

Life Happiness Peace Chance Never

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

Maurice Maeterlinck

Knowledge Death Die Know Nothing Us

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

Happiness Sweet Reward Goodness Act

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

Happiness Happy Remember Know Duty

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

Shadow Greater Event Pass Come Our

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Truth Value True More Because Most

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

Alone Dark Others Never Same Even

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

Maurice Maeterlinck

Nature Prove Will Reason May Only

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