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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

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  Flower, Long, Joy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.35, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

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  Death, Knowledge, Science

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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