“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

—  Khalil Gibran

Edwin Hubbell Chapin, as quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert
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Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883–1931

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