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I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

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
Unseen
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Beginning
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My God, my aim and my fulfillment I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.
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Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
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The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.
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Inspiration will always sing inspiration will never explain.
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Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
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But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.
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And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.
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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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Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
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Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
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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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Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
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For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.
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Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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