Paulo Coelho

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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"Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words."

Heart Next Day Worry
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"I realised that you don't have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal."

Goal Complicated Achieve
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"In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life."

Issues Sexuality Minutes
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"Truth resides where there is faith."

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"This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates."

Heart Opinion Feels
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"The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love."

Life Prayer Hatred
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"Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies."

Believe Struggle Rights
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"They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers."

Order Important World
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"She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her."

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"Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear."

Girl Fear Real
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"That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say."

Hero People Fascination
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"I only invoked what you already knew."

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"People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it."

People Trying Mystery
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"We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation."

Creation
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"What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars."

People Battle Stronger
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"I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings."

Thinking People Serenity
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