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Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
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