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Paulo Coelho Quotes - Page 70

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That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

People, World, Dare

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

Book, Forget Everything, Forget

And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.

Feels, Persons, Wholeheartedly

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

Book, Reading, Made

Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, Harper Collins

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

Addiction, Enslavement

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

Country, Children, Husband

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

Silence, Movement, Noise

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

Space, Silence, Blank

In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.

Suicide, Lying, Heart

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

Trying, Napkins, Scribbles

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

Life, Thinking, Alchemist

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

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

Humanity, Stories, Persons

We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.

Heart, Thinking, Forever

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

Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.

Responsibility, Understanding, Gold

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Men, Listening, Important

We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.

Memories, Order, Soul

One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought tat was just the way life was. My life anf everybody else's.

Dream, Fall, Way

Follow your dreams and take your risks.

Dream, Follow Your Dreams, Risk

Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

Fashion, Army, World

Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

Fashion, Black, Six Months

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?

Minutes, Eleven, Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho (2009). “Eleven Minutes: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.

Lasts, Firsts, Last Day

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.

Aim, Humans, Human Beings

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Accepting

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

Dream, Coward, Realizing

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