"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."

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Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.64, 谷月社

Maurice Maeterlinck

“I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, letâ€™s fill that with sound.”
“You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.”
“O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.”

Source : Attributed, in Langford Reed 'Complete Limerick Book' (1924)
“The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.”
“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.”
“To have a sense of education and ethics is important.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.”
“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity â€¦ I think thatâ€™s what being really human means.”

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