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Only love and death will change all things.

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
Death
Change
Things
Love

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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
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Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
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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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The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.
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Remembrance is a form of meeting.
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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
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We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
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