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For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep down in all things, the silent overpowering victory of that which you love.
— Maurice Maeterlinck Wisdom And Destiny
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
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