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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes about Death

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The living are just the dead on holiday

The living are just the dead on holiday

Maurice Maeterlinck
Death, Holiday

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Death, Goal, Guides
Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.18, 谷月社

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Death, Education, Pain
Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Death, Knowledge, Science
Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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