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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. — Maurice Maeterlinck

The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels. — Maurice Maeterlinck

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

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. — Maurice Maeterlinck

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. — Maurice Maeterlinck

But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more. — Maurice Maeterlinck

A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures. — Maurice Maeterlinck

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention. — Maurice Maeterlinck

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

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

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. — Maurice Maeterlinck

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing. — Maurice Maeterlinck

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

I am moved by the light. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God. — Maurice Maeterlinck

We possess only the happiness we able to understand. — Maurice Maeterlinck

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

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. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

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

Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

I count only the hours that are serene. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it. — Maurice Maeterlinck

To learn to love, one must first learn to see. — Maurice Maeterlinck