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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Khalil Gibran
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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
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Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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The appearance of things changes according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
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Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
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I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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