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We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

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
Beauty
Fear
Death
Beautiful
Dream
Long
Slumber
Dreams
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For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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You often say, I would give, but only to the deserving. The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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When you part from your friend, you grieve not For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
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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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Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
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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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How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
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The longing for paradise is paradise itself.
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