Quotes from book
The Prophet

The Prophet
Khalil Gibran

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history, and it has never been out of print.

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“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

Khalil Gibran book The Prophet

The Prophet (1923)

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“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”

Khalil Gibran book The Prophet

Source: kniha The Prophet (Prorok), báseň On pain (O bolesti)

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“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.”

Khalil Gibran book The Prophet

The Prophet (1923)

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“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”

Khalil Gibran book The Prophet

The Prophet (1923)

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“Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.”

Khalil Gibran book The Prophet

The Prophet (1923)
Context: Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

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“For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.”

Khalil Gibran book The Prophet

The Prophet (1923)

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