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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
Fetter
Fetters
Becomes
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Liberty
Greater
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Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
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There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
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Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
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Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
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Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
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You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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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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A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.
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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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