The Prophet

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  A small pearl every one should read

  This book is one of the shortest in my bookshelf, but probably one of the most beatiful, I read it every summer during my vacancies, and every time is different from the other ones, probably because I AM different.
  I believe this book is like a school lesson : a scholar makes a question and the teac ... (continue)

  This book is one of the shortest in my bookshelf, but probably one of the most beatiful, I read it every summer during my vacancies, and every time is different from the other ones, probably because I AM different.
  I believe this book is like a school lesson : a scholar makes a question and the teacher replies. But this teacher is a "strange" one : he does not only reply to the single questions, but he makes a mosaic where all the questions, even those not made, find a single answer in the quest for the Invisible One.
  That's really a pearl that an oyster shows us step by step.

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  Ologib said on Aug 23, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  One of the shortest books on my bookshelf, and yet possibly the most profound. Endless re-reading only enhances Gibran's classic text.

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  Octoberon said on Apr 25, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  True Insight

  This is one book which has made me look inside. This has really been the first book which did so. I started reading 'The Prophet' when i was 11 years old, and at that time it just spun me around in an unknown world of fantasies and imagination. Later during my college days, it brought light and dept ... (continue)

  This is one book which has made me look inside. This has really been the first book which did so. I started reading 'The Prophet' when i was 11 years old, and at that time it just spun me around in an unknown world of fantasies and imagination. Later during my college days, it brought light and depth to the character i have now.

  I still read bits of it to make the path of life interesting and insightful.

  A wisdom renderer.

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  Justfairme said on Aug 14, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Beautiful, profound, wise, timeless! The Prophet speaks to everybody, regardless of one’s faith, or lack of it.

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  Doppelganger said on Aug 11, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  A great book, profound and eternal. It seems everytime you will read this book, you can take something new out of it. Very true, deep thoughts--amazes you how everything (the philosophy about so many profound topics like giving, love, marriage, law, etc) has been so succintly and beautifully carved ... (continue)

  A great book, profound and eternal. It seems everytime you will read this book, you can take something new out of it. Very true, deep thoughts--amazes you how everything (the philosophy about so many profound topics like giving, love, marriage, law, etc) has been so succintly and beautifully carved in a few pages. It also feels its something you knew, is within you, yet you couldnt identify it. That mass of uncertainty being put in a few lines by this great author. As he himself says, "I only speak to you in words of that which you yourselves know in thought"(p.112).
  Not a very easy read, but neither it is too difficult. Some parts might not be clear in first reading. But on the whole, can understand it, and easily admire it.

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  Raadz said on Jul 20, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• Finish it hastily because I know it is more like a pointer to Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

  Will come back to it from time to time when I should encounter it.

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  Nmk789 said on Dec 29, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 107 Pages
• Edition: 47th
• ISBN-10: 0394404289
• ISBN-13: 9780394404288
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Pub date: Apr 12, 1947
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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