"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
Maurice Masterlinck, Belgian dramatist, essayist, and poet
Born: 1862 AD
Died: 1949 AD, at 87 years of age.
Masterlinck wrote plays "The Princess Maleine" 1889, "The Intruder" 1890, "Pelleas and Melisande" 1892, "Joyzelle" 1903, "Mary Magdalene" 1910, libretto "Pelleas et Melisande" 1902
Nobel Prize in Literature 1911
Other well-known quotations from Masterlinck:
- "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
- "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing."
- "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
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Blog spam ??? When you hit the link "Pen Drive" it goes to the following:
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Thank you for alerting me to this. Luckily I haven't had much trouble with blog spam, but I don't want my readers linking to some dubious site.
I have deleted the post.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
How sad. I envy my dog. He lies there, taken care of and not plagued by guilt or regret or any of the monsters I have to push into the closet as they fight to push the door wide open. Stupid dog. Doesn't even guard the closet.
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