Jubran Khalil Jubran died in New York, New York on this day in 1931 (aged 48).
"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."
--from THE MADMAN (1918) by Khalil Gibran