Accepting Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck

“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.”

Maurice Maeterlinck

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