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I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
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The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
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We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.
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Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.
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Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of lacking ambition.
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Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
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The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.
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Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.
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I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.
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I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end
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life is the moment we're living right now.
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If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.
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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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Start using your wings they need some exercise.
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Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
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Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.
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That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
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He also knows the power of word.
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