“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to…”

“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”

— Khalil Gibran

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Gibran, Khalil. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Kahlil Gibran. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran

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