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Remembrance is a form of meeting.

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
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Remembrance
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
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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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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
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You often say, I would give, but only to the deserving. The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
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