Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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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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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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
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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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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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When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.
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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.
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I don't try to control my days.
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So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.
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A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.
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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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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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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'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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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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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
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All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.
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I ask myself: are defeats necessary? Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. 'Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.'
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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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I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.