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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.
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We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.
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I'm going away, he said. And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because.... Don't say anything, Fatima interrupted. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.
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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.
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To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
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I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.
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A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.
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Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.
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Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.
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There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
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But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.
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Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
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In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a matter of reading the inscription He wrote for you.
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Try to be good, you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
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Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.
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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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Never stop dreaming and follow the omens.
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People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
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Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as that one's more beautiful or this one's easier. You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.
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