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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure that this book lived up to the thousands of recomendations that I got to read it.  It is very beautiful, many of the lines are great, but as a whole, it seems like a sort of ode to indecision.  Maybe I didn't take enough time with it, but seemed to me to be so heavily focussed on balanc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3583498">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Prophet</em> made me feel profoundly spiritual when I was nineteen.  It was a great way to experience spirituality and romance as a teenager, but as I got older, its lusty descriptions of the true meaning of love, marriage, and life just seem like pretty, but shallow, wordplay.<br/><br/>Now, don't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/806063">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Now that I'm reading The Prophet again, words that I read twenty-seven years ago still ring clearly in my mind as I read them again today.  It was a wonderful moment a few evenings ago to find myself reciting aloud and from memory passages that had struck me then--and now--to the very core. Kahlil G...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7548176">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an overrated book by an overrated author. In the realm of the beautiful and rich history of Arabic literature this ranks extremely low. Compared to even his contemporaries, Gibran misses the mark. The work's symbolism is very bland and cliche and the work failed to really convey any powerful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7612831">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is cool because it is an excellent display of how similar the world's religions truly are.  When it comes down to it, they are really all the same and the differences are mainly aesthetic.<br/><br/>However, pretty much any person who has learned about many different religions is really g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3145111">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite your religious views, be they absent or strong, Gibran has given us a work of beauty that proves, to me at least, that faith is not necessary to be good and right.<br/><br/>A favorite quote from the book:<br/><br/>&quot;Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.<br/>Give one anot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1029730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Prophet by Kalil Ghibran<br/><br/>This book was given to me as a gift from my director in the last show that I did. I carried it with me everywhere and read it on the train, anytime I was waiting or bored. It brought me such immense comfort and inspiration. When I would read it’s pages befor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1559157">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Durant toutes ces années, le prophète a côtoyé les collines, conversé avec les vents et murmuré au creux des arbres. Étranger au peuple d'Orphalese, il a pourtant appris à le connaître et à l'aimer. Or, à l'heure de repartir vers sa terre natale, il éprouve une grande tristesse. Car c'est au sein de ce peuple, grâce à tout ce que lui a insufflé ce lieu, qu'il a pu mûrir la sagesse qu'il va désormais dispenser. Et c'est à Orphalese qu'à l'heure de l'adieu, dans un ultime échange, il s'accomplit comme prophète. On l'interroge sur les grandes préoccupations humaines et, inlassablement, il chuchote sa réponse avec tendresse et compréhension, sans dogmatisme. Long poème en prose, <em>Le Prophète</em> nous livre une conception de la religion qui est une conception de la vie. Étonnamment moderne, le panthéisme de Khalil Gibran conduit le divin vers des régions accessibles à tous. Nul besoin d'être chrétien du Liban, comme son auteur, pour se laisser bercer par le doux balancement des phrases. D'une grande indulgence envers les faiblesses de l'homme, mais aussi d'une grande confiance dans ses possibilités, cette modulation de <em>L'Ecclésiastique</em>, publiée en 1925, est sans doute le texte auquel Gibran a consacré le plus d'efforts. <em>--Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters</em> ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Prophet, by Kahil Gibran, was a book given to me years ago... It's a man talking of all the elements in life, in such a beautiful way, so as to respect the meaning and depth in all our most heart felt experiences...<br/><br/>For me, life is fascinating, the richness of different experiences an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10532805">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m glad I don’t classify books by topic.  I wouldn’t know where to file this one.  Fiction?  Poetry?  Spirituality?  Self-help?  Kahlil Gibran’s <em>The Prophet</em> is all of these.  <br/><br/>Written in the framework of fiction, the characters and setting of the Prophet are mere vehicles for a gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44892025">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read and re-read this book since I was nine years old.  It was my mother's (and still is) favorite book and it has been mine ever since I picked it up. <br/><br/>Foundations in spirituality, covers Christian, Muslim and Buddist beliefs...more universal stand.  Very quick read... written in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14529716">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Prophet&quot; is a beautiful and timeless work of art. From the mouth of an old man about to sail away to a far off place, we hear the simple and lyrical wisdom of life and all its components, such as love, work, materialism, crime, freedom, friendship, pleasure, and death. This is a class...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9208359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow I went through the first thirty years of my life never reading this book.  As I got older, I became more reluctant to pick it up.  I'd heard it praised by the same people that swear by The Alchemist (a book I was heartily disappointed in).<br/><br/>But, having now sat down and read it, I c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19342253">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[wow. I am really impressed with this book so far. It's quite short, but it's also quite late, so I'm afraid I'll have to wait until tomorrow to finish it and we'll see then if it holds through to the end.<br/><br/>On Giving<br/>&quot;... Is there aught you would withhold?<br/>All you have shall ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2105765">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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