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“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”

Kahlil Gibran

Source
The Prophet
Date
1923
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Joy and sorrow are treated as connected experiences: the capacity to feel one often grows from having known the other deeply.

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The Prophet, “On Joy and Sorrow.”

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