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Quote by Khalil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughte

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Lifes longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. – Khalil Gibran

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Khalil Gibran

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