
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist best known for The Prophet, a book of poetic essays that has been widely translated and influential.
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Background
- Born in
- Bsharri
- Educated at
- Académie Julian
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Trending topics shown first"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your sou…"
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be crea…"
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Timeline
1922
Born
Birth2008
Died
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