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I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.
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They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
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The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
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And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.
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What other people think is more important than what we feel.
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The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.
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I # forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating.
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Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.
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What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.
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Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.
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Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.
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Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.
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The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.
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If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.
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I will be capable of loving, regardless of whether I am loved in return, Of giving, when I have nothing, Of working happily, even in the midst of difficulties, Of holding out my hand, even when utterly alone and abandoned, Of drying my tears, even while I weep, Of believing, even when no one believes in me.
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Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.
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