"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?"

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Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社

Maurice Maeterlinck

#Flower Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”
“A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.”
“It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.”
“All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.”
“Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'”
“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.”
“'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.”

Source : "Jimmy Fallon: The New King of Late Night TV" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. March 20, 2013.
“What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?”

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