"Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even……" — Maurice Maeterlinck
"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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Maurice Maeterlinck
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66 Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the…
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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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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can…
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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