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"I am a shadow that does not exist to many.

A friend to some, invisible to most"

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"The worst prison would be a closed heart"

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Pope John Paul ll

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"It takes a long time to become young again" ;)

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Pablo Picasso

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"Nature stretches forth to us the hand of friendship

and bids us take delight in her beauty;

but we fear her stillness and take refuge in the city

and tumble one upon another as a flock of sheep

before the prowling wolf."

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Kahlil Gibran

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"Before the sun's rising from beyond the horizon, I sat in the middle of a field communing with Nature. At that hour filled with purity and beauty I lay on the grass [...] seeking to know from all that I looked upon the truth of Beauty and the beauty of Truth. And when my reflecting had set me apart from the flesh, and my imaginings lifted the covering of matter from off my inner self, I felt my spirit growing, drawing me near to Nature and revealing to me her hidden things and teaching me the language of her wonders."

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Kahlil Gibran

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The Spirit

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"And the God of gods separated a Spirit from Himself and created in it Beauty. He gave to it the lightness of the breeze at dawn and the fragrance of the flowers of the field and the softness of moonlight. Then He gave to it a cup of joy, saying: 'You shall not drink of it except that you forget the Past and heed not the Future.' And He gave to it a cup of sadness, saying: 'You shall drink and know therefrom the meaning of Life's rejoicing.' Then He put therein a Love that would forsake it with the first sigh of satisfaction; and a Sweetness that would go out therefrom with the first words uttered. And He caused to descend upon it knowledge from the heavens to guide it in the way of Truth. And planted in its depths Sight, that it might see the unseen. Therein He created Feeling to flow with images and phantom forms; And clothed it with a garment of Yearning woven by angels from rainbow strands. In it He did put the darkness of Confusion, which is Light's image. And the god took Fire from Wrath's furnace, and a Wind from the desert of Ignorance, and Sand from the seashore of Selfishness, and Earth from beneath the feet of the ages, and He created Man. He gave to him unseeing Force to rise up in fury with madness and subside before lust. And the God of gods smiled and wept and knew a Love boundless and without limit, and He mated Man with his Spirit."

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Kahlil Gibran