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This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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