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The ProphetKahlil Gibran

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A reason to turn the page

Evil is good tortured by hunger—what appetite inside you turns virtue into harm?

Discovery 8 of 15

And he answered:

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.