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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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
Already
Knowledge
Lying
Half
Nothing
Dawning
Men
Asleep
Reveal
Lies

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My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.
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Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
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And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.
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Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
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Every man is two men one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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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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For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
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Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.
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Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.
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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.
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Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
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To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.
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