All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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More quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
- We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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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.
- We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
- 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.