Paulo Coelho Quotes
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
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That’s because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn’t teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
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Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.
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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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When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.
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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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Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. And what you’re doing now isn’t traveling, it’s just changing countries, which is completely different
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When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.
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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
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It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
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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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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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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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I don't try to control my days.
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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
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Stop being who you were and become who you are.
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I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
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Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.
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So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.
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Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
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Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.