“Never mind… Don't cry… I will catch him again… [Stepping to the front of the stage and addressing the audience. ] If any of you should find him, would you be so very kind as to give him back to us?… We need him for our happiness, later on…”

— Maurice Maeterlinck , The Blue Bird

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Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist 1862–1949

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