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Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

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
Art
Unknown
Step
Toward
Steps
Known

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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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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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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
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Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
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Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.
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For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.
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Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
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No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
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Rob a neighbour with a smile.
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You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.
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Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
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