Maurice Maeterlinck

Person · Open Library

Born

29 Aug 1862

Died

6 May 1949

Works

696

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Belgium

Active from

1862-08-29

Active to

1949-05-06

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

103

Total plays

280

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (also called Comte (Count) Maeterlinck from 1932; French pronunciation: [mo.ʁis ma.tɛʁ.lɛ̃ːk] in Belgium, [mɛ.teʁ.lɛ̃ːk] in France; 29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Maurice+Maeterlinck">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome

   · 2013 · cited 8,956x

2. QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis

   · 2017 · cited 8,319x

3. General Theory of Three-Dimensional Consolidation

   · 1941 · cited 8,167x

4. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 6,195x

5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

   · 2016 · cited 5,700x

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Quotes

• “We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.”
• “The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.”
• “Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.”
• “All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.”
• “I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.”
• “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.”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Literature1911

  “in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations”