Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence. — Quoted

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“Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.”

Maurice Maeterlinck · Happiness

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Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Death

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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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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Loneliness

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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.

Happiness