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It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
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Philosopher
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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.
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And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.
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Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
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Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
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Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.
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The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
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All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
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Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.
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There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
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The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
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Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?
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