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We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

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
Way
Prophet
Ended
Finds
Lonelier
Seeking
Ripeness
Begin
Wanderers
Left
Sunrise
Another
Traveler
Ever
Sunset

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