"People of Orphalese, beauty is life when..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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“But 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 souls.”
“You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.”
“He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.”
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“Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.”
“To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.”
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“This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.”
“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.”
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