Paulo Coelho Quotes
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
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I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you - until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.
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I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
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If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
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Veronika brought her interior monologue to a close and made a promise to herself: she would not leave Villete alive. It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die.
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Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.
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I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
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My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
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Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.
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you discover that your old 'I,' along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.
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All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.
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The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it’s blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn’t solve anything.
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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I'm not a person that socializes very well.
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I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.
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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.
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Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.