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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
Beautiful
Dream
Long
Slumber
Dreams
Sleep
Beauty
Fear
Death

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There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.
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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
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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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Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
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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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And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
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He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
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Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.
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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
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...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
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