filled by those revelations, as I am even now passing over what befalls me in my life. My destiny does not lie there, nor my home. I do not doubt that the facts reported are genuine and proved; but what is even much more certain is that the dead, if they sur- vive, have not a great deal to teach us, whether because, at the moment when they can speak to us, they have nothing yet to tell us, or because, at the moment when they might have something to reveal to us, they are no longer able to do so, but withdraw for ever and lose sight of us in the immen- sity which they are exploring.
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Publication Information: Book Title: Our Eternity. Contributors: Maurice Maeterlinck - author, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos - transltr. Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1913. Page Number: 176.
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