Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

—Kahlil Gibran

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About Kahlil Gibran

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Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān (Arabic: جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of...

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An epoch will come when people disclaim kinship with us as we disclaim kinship with the monkeys.

—Kahlil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance.

—Kahlil Gibran

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

—Kahlil Gibran

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

—Kahlil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

—Kahlil Gibran

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In art, the obvious is a sin.

—Edward Dmytryk

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

—Randall Jarrell

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A mystic is a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the nonexistent.

—Elbert Hubbard

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

—Galileo Galilei

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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

—Arthur Koestler

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History

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