"A pearl is a temple built by pain around
a grain of sand.

What longing built our bodies and
around what grains?"

via https://www.tumblr.com/soracities/728175891893682176/kahlil-gibran-excerpts-from-sand-and-foam-id-in

https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.219068/2015.219068.Sand-And_djvu.txt