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“Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.”

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Alphonse Allais, a French writer, was born on October 20, 1854, and died on October 28, 1905. Known for his humorous and satirical style, he is one of the representative figures of Symbolist literature in France. more

“I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become, Desiring to become, we live.”

Thinking Giving Trying Desire Seeing

Author:Rene Daumal

“Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.”

Men Littles Turns Pieces Cutting Truth Is Ultimate Down And Errors Track Atoms Grain Miscalculations

Author:Rene Daumal

“As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.”

Thinking Way Light Water Dark Wonderful Sea Strange Goes On Return Stones Depth Glasses Surface Treasure Pale Abyss Fingertips Drop Of Water Devalue Shards Of Glass

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.”

Thinking Men Mean Real Together Silence Fashion Communication Speech Elements Eternity Great Things One Man Idle Silence Is Stifling

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.”

Men World Needs Should Earth Asks Perfect Creation Offers Creatures Logic Humble Honey Spheres Bees Centre Another World Living Creatures Combs

Book:The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck

Source: The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck

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