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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
The Spring
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
Love
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Sufficient

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If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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Work is love made visable.
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He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
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Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.
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When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
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He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.
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But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.
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And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
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Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
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Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.
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