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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.
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of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.
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Every moment in life is an act of faith
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When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.
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The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
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Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.
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I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.
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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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Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.
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A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
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If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.
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The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.
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Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.
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A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.
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... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
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In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
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When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena signs, the sceptics coincidence, and psychologists concentrated focus, although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
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But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.
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And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
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