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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
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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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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.
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The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.
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For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
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If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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I once heard a learned man say, Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure.
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You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.
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She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
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Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
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