What did Maurice Maeterlinck mean by: How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium Copy
+ All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Maurice Maeterlinck, Death, Education, Pain, 0 - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
+ The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Maurice Maeterlinck, Intelligence, Sage, Wisdom, 0 - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
+ We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Maurice Maeterlinck, Inspirational Life, Judging, Water, 0 - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
+ The living are just the dead on holiday Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Maurice Maeterlinck, Death, Holiday, 0 - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
+ The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Maurice Maeterlinck, Melancholy, Misery, Sad, 0 - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
+ We possess only the happiness we able to understand. Feraz Zeid, July 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Maurice Maeterlinck, Happiness, Joy, 0 - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
+ Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Maurice Maeterlinck, Atheism, 0 - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
+ There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Maurice Maeterlinck, Adventure, Everyday, Soul, 0 - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
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