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For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

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
Good
Tortured
Thirst
Hunger
Evil
Spiritual

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Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?
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You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
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Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.
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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree if the tree loses one strong branch it will suffer but it does not die it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.
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Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.
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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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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
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If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
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And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
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Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.
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Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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This for God and this for myself This for my soul, and this other for my body?
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