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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

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
Beauty
Waiting
Else
Form
Live
Discover
Civilization

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We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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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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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
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Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
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