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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

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
Life
Merriment
Determination
Desire

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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
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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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Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.
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You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
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In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment it engulfs my affection In a transparent cloak and flows, But not upon my lips.
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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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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From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Hell is not in torture Hell is in an empty heart.
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