The Prophet The Original 1923 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Kahlil Gibran Classics)
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How shall I go in peace and without sorrow?
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A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.
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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
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And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.