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I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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I know that you are looking for the Blue Bird, that is to say, the great secret of things and of happiness, so that Man may make our servitude still harder.

The Blue Bird (1908)

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.

The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1960)

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that lies in others.

Wisdom and Destiny (1898)

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

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