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    The Madman: “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”
    The Madman: “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”
    The Madman: “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”
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    The Madman: “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

    By Kahlil Gibran

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    Khalil Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements. The group was presided by Khalil himself and was baptized Arrabitah, or “The League.” Generally, the Arabic literature of the beginning of the twentieth century was marked by the revolutionary ideas advanced by Arrabitah members as well as by other Arab intellectuals and literary men who felt the urgent need to revolutionize classic Arabic verse and prose. It was a growing urge to innovate and to break with old literary traditions and conventions. The current eventually helped to open new horizons such as the flourishing, in the second half of the twentieth century, of Arabic prose poetry and free verse. The Arrabitah experience was, actually, fundamental in the life of Khalil Gibran who was regarded as a literary rebel and a leading figure of the Arabic literary Renaissance in addition to his Oriental contributions to Western poetry and thought. Here we publish ‘The Madman’.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA Word To The Wise
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9781783945689
    The Madman: “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”
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    Kahlil Gibran

    Poet, philosopher, and artist, Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) was born in Lebanon. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age and he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the country of his birth. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages and his drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake.

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      The Madman - Kahlil Gibran

      Kahlil Gibran - The Madman: His Parables and Poems

      Kahlil Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements. The group was presided by Khalil himself and was baptized Arrabitah, or The League. Generally, the Arabic literature of the beginning of the twentieth century was marked by the revolutionary ideas advanced by Arrabitah members as well as by other Arab intellectuals and literary men who felt the urgent need to revolutionize classic Arabic verse and prose. It was a growing urge to innovate and to break with old literary traditions and conventions.  The current eventually helped to open new horizons such as the flourishing, in the second half of the twentieth century, of Arabic prose poetry and free verse. The Arrabitah experience was, actually, fundamental in the life of Khalil Gibran who was regarded as a literary rebel and a leading figure of the Arabic literary Renaissance in addition to his Oriental contributions to Western poetry and thought.  Here we publish ‘The Madman’.

      CONTENTS 

      HOW I BECAME A MADMAN

      GOD

      MY FRIEND

      THE SCARECROW

      THE SLEEP-WALKERS

      THE WISE DOG

      THE TWO HERMITS

      ON GIVING AND TAKING

      THE SEVEN SELVES

      WAR

      THE FOX

      THE WISE KING

      AMBITION

      THE NEW PLEASURE

      THE OTHER LANGUAGE

      THE POMEGRANATE

      THE TWO CAGES

      THE THREE ANTS

      THE GRAVE-DIGGER

      ON THE STEPS OF THE TEMPLE

      THE BLESSED CITY

      THE GOOD GOD AND THE EVIL GOD

      DEFEAT

      NIGHT AND THE MADMAN

      FACES

      THE GREATER SEA

      CRUCIFIED

      THE ASTRONOMER

      THE GREAT LONGING

      SAID A BLADE OF GRASS

      THE EYE

      THE TWO LEARNED MEN

      WHEN MY SORROW WAS BORN

      AND WHEN MY JOY WAS BORN

      THE PERFECT WORLD 

      KAHLIL GIBRAN – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      HOW I BECAME A MADMAN 

      You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen,-the seven masks I have fashioned an worn in seven lives, -I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves. 

      Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. 

      And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, He is a madman. I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are

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