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161 " Death descends upon us to take away a life or change its form: let us judge it by what it does and not by what we do before it comes and after it is gone. "
― Maurice Maeterlinck , Death
162 " since the days of the great martyrs, that woman was ready with the same gift of self, the same patience, the same sacrifices, the same greatness of soul and was about—less perhaps in blood than in tears, for it is always on her that sorrow ends by falling—to prove herself the rival and the peer of man. "
― Maurice Maeterlinck , The Wrack of the Storm
163 " She was born without reason … to die; and she dies without reason…. "
― Maurice Maeterlinck , Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home
164 " Do we know what it is that dies in our dead, or even if anything dies? Whatever our religious faith may be, there is at any rate one place where they cannot die. That place is within ourselves; and, if this unhappy mother went beyond the truth, she was yet nearer to it than those despairing ones who nourish the mournful certainty that nothing survives of those whom they loved. She felt too keenly what we do not feel keenly enough. "
165 " Those about her pitied the poor woman; and, as she did not weep, as she was gay and smiling, they believed her mad. "
166 " Son el alma del estío, el reloj de los minutos de abundancia, el ala diligente de los perfumes que vuelan, la inteligencia de los rayos de luz que se ciernen, el murmullo de las caridades que vibran, el canto de la atmósfera que descansa, y su vuelo es la señal visible, la nota convencida y musical de las pequeñas alegrías innumerables que nacen del calor y viven en la luz "
― Maurice Maeterlinck , The Life of the Bee