Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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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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Of giving, even when I have nothing,
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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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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
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Life attracts life.
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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 have only one certainty: there exists a parallel spiritual universe that impinges on the world in which we live. Apart from that, everything else seems absurd to me-sacred books, revelations, guides, manuals, ceremonies … and, what is worse, they appear to have no lasting effects.
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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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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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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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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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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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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.
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Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.
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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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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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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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If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.
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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.