Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author best known for 'The Alchemist', which explores themes of destiny, love, and self-discovery.

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August 24, 1947
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"I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change."

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"We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory."

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"The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize."

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"The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things."

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"The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return."

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"Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way."

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"We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred."

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"God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered."

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"We are what we do, and not what we think we must do."

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"Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life from one moment to the next. But there's the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly."

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"Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way."

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"For the warrior of light there are no ends, only means. Life carries him from unknown to unknown. Each moment is filled with this thrilling mystery: the warrior does not know where he came from or where he is going."

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"Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment."

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"When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth ."

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"Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground."

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"I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited."

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"to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world."

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