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A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

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
Freedom
Free
Without
Great
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
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And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
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They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.
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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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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
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Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
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