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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1907 AD · modern
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- Kahlil Gibran
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- Approximate author period: c. 1907 AD · modern
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