"Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested."
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"Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible."
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"Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world."
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"For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter."
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"Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it."
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"There is only one way to learn... It's through action."
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"If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day."
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"life is the moment we're living right now."
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"The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other."
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"I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work."
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"I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does."
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"Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny"
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"The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances."
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"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so."
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"As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure."
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"It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is."
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"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer."
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"When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought."
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"Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present"."
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"You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand."
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