<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430875" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Madman - His Parables and Poems</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long<br>before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all<br>my masks were stolen,--the seven masks I have fashioned an worn in<br>seven lives,--I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting,<br>'Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear<br>of me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top<br>cried, 'He is a madman.' I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed<br>my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun<br>kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for<br>the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I<br>cried, 'Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus I became a madman.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from<br>being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in<br>us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail<br>is safe from another thief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430875" data-title="The Madman - His Parables and Poems de Khalil Gibran" data-description="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 crowde..."></div> </div> </div>

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