"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.“
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"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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"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."
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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
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