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And all this, I repeat, occurred without any material necessity, from no other motive than a fine sense of honour and a magnificent surge of admirati… - Maurice Maeterlinck
" "And all this, I repeat, occurred without any material necessity, from no other motive than a fine sense of honour and a magnificent surge of admiration and pity for a small foreign nation that was being unjustly martyred. We cannot repeat it too often: here, as in the case of the sacrifice which Belgium and England offered to the ideal of honour, is a new and unprecedented fact in history
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About Maurice Maeterlinck
Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist who wrote in French, most famous for his work L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird), and for other works exploring the meaning of life and death. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911.
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دنیا برای چه ما و سایر موجودات را به وجود آورده؟... آیا برای این ما را به وجود آورد که خود را تنها می دید و در تنهایی خویشتن را سعادتمند نمی دانست؟... و آیا برای این که او سعادتمند نیست ما و سایر موجودات هم سعادتمند نیستیم؟
ولی فراموش نکنید که وقتی ما در خصوص تصمیمات جهان، آفریننده و یا هر چیز دیگر که به جایش بگذارید، صحبت می کنیم عینا مثل است که یک پشه بخواهد در خصوص تصمیمات ما که انسان هستیم صحبت و تفکر نماید و یا کور مادرزاد بخواهد رنگ های مختلف را توصیف کند
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A superior atmosphere exists, in which we all know each other; and there is a mysterious truth – deeper far than the material truth - to which we at once have recourse, when we try to form a conception of a stranger. Have we not all experienced these things, which take place in the impenetrable regions of almost astral humanity?
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