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    Death

    By Maurice Maeterlinck

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    Release dateFeb 1, 1977
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      Death - Maurice Maeterlinck

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Death, by Maurice Maeterlinck, Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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      Title: Death

      Author: Maurice Maeterlinck

      Release Date: February 22, 2010 [eBook #31354]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEATH***

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      DEATH

      BY

      MAURICE MAETERLINCK

      TRANSLATED BY

      ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

      NEW YORK

      DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

      1912

      Copyright, 1911

      By Maurice Maeterlinck

      Published, January, 1912

      All rights reserved

      THE WORKS OF MAURICE MAETERLINCK IN

      UNIFORM STYLE AND BINDING

      ESSAYS

      The Treasure of the Humble

      Wisdom and Destiny

      The Life of the Bee

      The Buried Temple

      The Double Garden

      The Measure of the Hours

      Death

      PLAYS

      Sister Beatrice and Ardiane and Barbe Bleue

      Joyzelle and Monna Vanna

      The Blue Bird, A Fairy Play

      Mary Magdalene

      Pélléas and Mélisande, and Other Plays

      Princess Maleine

      The Intruder, and Other Plays

      Aglavaine and Selysette

      HOLIDAY EDITIONS

      The text in each case is an extract from one of the above mentioned books.

      Our Friend the Dog

      Old-Fashioned Flowers

      The Swarm

      The Intelligence of the Flowers

      Chrysanthemums

      The Leaf of Olive

      Thoughts from Maeterlinck

      CONTENTS

      DEATH

      I

      OUR IDEA OF DEATH

      t has been well said:

      Death and death alone is what we must consult about life; and not some vague future or survival, in which we shall not be present. It is our own end; and everything happens in the interval between death and now. Do not talk to me of those imaginary prolongations which wield over us the childish spell of number; do not talk to me—to me who am to die outright—of societies and peoples! There is no reality, there is no true duration, save that between the cradle and the grave. The rest is mere bombast, show, delusion! They call me a master because of some magic in my speech and thoughts; but I am a frightened child in the presence of death![1]

      II

      A PRIMITIVE IDEA

      hat is where we stand. For us, death is the one event that counts in our life and in our universe. It is the point whereat all that escapes our vigilance unites

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