And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
("The Prophet")
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I shall take it now in the name of evil!
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The self same well from which your laughs rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
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Yesterday I roamed the prairies and the hills together with the Bedouin's daughter; Virtue was our companion, Love our delight, and the moon our guardian.
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the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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