Love & Relationships! Commonly misattributed
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
— Kahlil Gibran
Poet and philosopher
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- Kahlil Gibran
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- Attribution status
- ! Commonly misattributed
Not found in Gibran's writings; the saying is generally traced to 20th-century authors such as Jess Lair.
Photo: Christian Ferrer · CC BY 4.0 · source · Portrait: Unknown author (Public domain)
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