Kahlil Gibran — a remark

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“There is no deeper desire than the Desire of being revealed. We all want the little light in us be Taken from under the bushel.”

The hunger to be known rather than hidden · Letter to Mary Haskell, 10 November 1911

About Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

6 January 1883–10 April 1931

Kahlil Gibran, born on 6 January 1883 in the mountain town of Bsharri, in what is now northern Lebanon, and dead on 10 April 1931 in New York City, became one of the most widely read literary figures of the twentieth century. He was a poet, prose writer, essayist, painter, draftsman, cultural critic, and immigrant…

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