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What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

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People, Battle, Stronger
Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

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Creation

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

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People, Trying, Mystery

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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Children, Vanity, Expression
Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

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Mean, Healing, Past

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

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Ease, Extroverts, Introvert

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

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Book, Sometimes, Felt
Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

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Eye, Order, Things In Life

I only invoked what you already knew.

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Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

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Dream, Wall, Live Life

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

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Life, Dream, Practice
Paulo Coelho (2009). “Eleven Minutes: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

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Thinking, Drunk, Normal

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

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Hero, People, Fascination

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

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Girl, Fear, Real

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.

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Queens, Men, Color White

She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.

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Taken, Men, Hands

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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Order, Important, World

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

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People, Judging, Comfort

Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

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Believe, Struggle, Rights

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

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Life, Prayer, Hatred

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

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Heart, Opinion, Feels

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

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Boys, Destiny, Might

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

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Window Panes, Sometimes, Window

From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.

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Stars, Kissing, Boys
Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded

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Love, People, House

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