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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

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
Liberty
Greater
Freedom
Fetter
Fetters
Becomes
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