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Khalil Gibran

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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 and 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 housetop 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 the thieves who stole my masks.”
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.

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The Madman

His Parables and Poems

Khalil Gibran

Contents

How I Became A Madman

1. God

2. My Friend

3. The Scarecrow

4. The Sleepwalkers

5. The Wise Dog

6. The Two Hermits

7. On Giving and Taking

8. The Seven Selves

9. War

10. The Fox

11. The Wise King

12. Ambition

13. The New Pleasure

14. The Other Language

15. The Pomegranate

16. The Two Cages

17. The Three Ants

18. The Gravedigger

19. On the Steps of the Temple

20. The Blessed City

21. The Good God and the Evil God

22. “Defeat”

23. Night and the Madman

24. Faces

25. The Greater Sea

26. Crucified

27. The Astronomer

28. The Great Longing

29. Said a Blade of Grass

30. The Eye

31. The Two Learned Men

32. When My Sorrow Was Born

33. And When My Joy Was Born

34. “The Perfect World”

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 and 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 housetop 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 the thieves who stole my masks.”

Thus I became a madman.

And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.