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We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

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
Bright
Moon
Side
Sides
Spiritual
Stills
Still
Like
Darker

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
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Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.
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A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
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Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
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In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.
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For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.
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I learnt silence from the talkative
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In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
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It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
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Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
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Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
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The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.
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Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?
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