"Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having."
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"Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent."
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"My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me."
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"Love means sharing the world with someone else."
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"In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last."
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"If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now."
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"I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days."
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"Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness."
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"I believe it is better to live a dream rather than to simply dream it. The dream is the start of something greater, something that impels us to make daring decisions. And it's true that the person who pursues a dream takes many risks. But the person who does not runs risks that are even greater."
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"Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore."
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"I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom."
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"What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself."
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"Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes."
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"Be realistic: Go for the impossible!"
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"You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'"
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"He also knows the power of word."
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"He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over."
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"With confidence, he open the door of life presented to him."
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"The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life."
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"His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences."
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