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Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

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
Doe
City
Dreamless
Body
Leave
Hilltop
Cities
Grove
Grows
Sleeps
Sleep
Dreaming
House
Stillness
Night
Larger
Dream
Sun

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