Gibran Khalil

Rebellious Spirits Gibran Khalil

Unhappy is the man who loves a young woman and chooses her as the companion of his life, spills the sweat of his forehead and the blood of his heart at his feet, places the fruit of his work in her hands, and then realizes that love that he believed he deserved with his effort and his vigils, is offered to another so that he can enjoy his hidden honeys. Unhappy is the woman who awakens from the unconsciousness of youth to find herself in the house of a man who overwhelms her with riches and fills her with clothes; and that, nevertheless, he is not capable of igniting his heart with the flame of love, nor intoxicating his spirit with the divine liquor that God pours, from the eyes of a man, into the heart of a woman.