“Have you ever felt that your heart contained so much that it must surely break apart”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“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.”
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Khalil Gibran
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book
The Prophet
The Prophet (1923)
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