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I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.
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In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat there is only movement.
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We all harbour a great sadness in our soul
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You need to wake up if you want to dream.
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What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.
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All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
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A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability
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Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.
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Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.
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I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.
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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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We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.
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Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
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This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
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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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Man struggles to survive, not to succumb
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To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.
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It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.
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You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.
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The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.
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