The Alchemist Quotes

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And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
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William H. Gass (A Temple of Texts)
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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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When each day is the same as the next, itโ€™s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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I donโ€™t live in either my past or my future. Iโ€™m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, youโ€™ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment weโ€™re living now.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.
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Richelle Mead (Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1))
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Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
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Hiromu Arakawa
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Maktub" (It is written.)
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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ูู„ู…ุงุฐุง ุงุฐู† ูŠุฌุจ ุงู† ุงุตุบูŠ ุงู„ู‰ ู‚ู„ุจูŠุŸ ู„ุฃู†ูƒ ู„ู† ุชู†ุฌุญ ููŠ ุงุณูƒุงุชู‡ ุงุจุฏุง ูˆ ุญุชู‰ ู„ูˆ ุชุธุงู‡ุฑุช ุจุงู†ูƒ ู„ุง ุชุณู…ุน ู…ุง ูŠู‚ูˆู„ ูุณูŠุธู„ ู‡ู†ุงูƒ ููŠ ุตุฏุฑูƒ ูˆ ู„ู† ูŠูƒู ุนู† ุชุฑุฏุงุฏ ู…ุง ูŠุนุชู‚ุฏู‡ ุนู† ุงู„ุญูŠุงุฉ ูˆ ุงู„ุนุงู„ู…
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together.โ€ โ€œNo,โ€ I said. โ€œNo?โ€ โ€œWeโ€™re, uh, not in West Virginia.
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Richelle Mead (Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6))
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Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.
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Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1)
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To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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ย ย  In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julianโ€™s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.
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Susan Rowland (The Alchemy Fire Murder: a Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
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It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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Scott Westerfeld (Uglies (Uglies, #1))
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Maktub,โ€ she said. โ€œIf I am really part of your dream, youโ€™ll come back one day.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.
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Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1)
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A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own...you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.
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Hiromu Arakawa
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At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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ู‚ุงู„ ุงู„ุฎูŠู…ูŠุงุฆูŠ : ู‚ู„ ู„ู‚ู„ุจูƒ ุฅู† ุงู„ุฎูˆู ู…ู† ุงู„ุนุฐุงุจ ุฃุณูˆุฃ ู…ู† ุงู„ุนุฐุงุจ ู†ูุณู‡ ุŒ ูˆู„ูŠุณ ู‡ู†ุงูƒ ู…ู† ู‚ู„ุจ ูŠุชุนุฐุจ ุนู†ุฏู…ุง ูŠุชุจุน ุฃุญู„ุงู…ู‡ ุŒ ู„ุฃู† ูƒู„ ู„ุญุธุฉ ู…ู† ุงู„ุจุญุซ ู‡ูŠ ู„ุญุธุฉ ู„ู‚ุงุก ู…ุน ุงู„ู„ู‡ ูˆุงู„ุฎู„ูˆุฏ.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
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Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1)
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Haven't you ever heard of the saying, "If you want to shoot the general, first shoot the horse!"?' --Lin If you wanna shoot the general, then you should just SHOOT THE GENERAL!' --Ed
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Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 14 (Fullmetal Alchemist, #14))
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ู‡ู†ุงูƒ ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฏูˆุงู… ุดุฎุตู‹ุง ู…ุง ููŠ ุงู„ุนุงู„ู… ูŠู†ุชุธุฑ ุดุฎุตู‹ุง ุขุฎุฑุŒ ุณูˆุงุก ุฃูƒุงู† ุฐู„ูƒ ููŠ ูˆุณุท ุงู„ุตุญุฑุงุก ุฃู… ููŠ ุฃุนู…ุงู‚ ุงู„ู…ุฏู† ุงู„ูƒุจุฑู‰.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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ู„ุง ุชู‚ู„ ุดูŠุฆุงู‹ุŒ ุฅู†ู†ุง ู†ุญุจ ู„ุฃู†ู†ุง ู†ุญุจุŒ ู„ุง ูŠูˆุฌุฏ ุณุจุจ ุขุฎุฑ ูƒูŠ ู†ุญุจ.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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ู…ุง ูŠุญุฏุซ ู…ุฑุฉ ูŠู…ูƒู† ุฃู„ุง ูŠุญุฏุซ ุซุงู†ูŠุฉู‹ ุฃุจุฏุงู‹ุŒ ู„ูƒู† ู…ุง ูŠุญุฏุซ ู…ุฑุชูŠู† ูŠุญุฏุซ ุจุงู„ุชุฃูƒูŠุฏ ู…ุฑุฉ ุซุงู„ุซุฉ.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
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Ted Chiang (The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate)
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My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.
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Paulo Coelho
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ุฅู†ู†ูŠ ู„ุง ุฃุญูŠุง ููŠ ู…ุงุถูŠูŽู‘ุŒ ูˆู„ุง ููŠ ู…ุณุชู‚ุจู„ูŠ. ู„ูŠุณ ู„ูŠ ุณูˆู‰ ุงู„ุญุงุถุฑุŒ ูˆู‡ูˆ ูˆุญุฏู‡ ู…ุง ูŠู‡ู…ู†ูŠ. ุฅุฐุง ูƒุงู† ุจุงุณุชุทุงุนุชูƒ ุงู„ุจู‚ุงุก ุฏุงุฆู…ู‹ุง ููŠ ุงู„ุญุงุถุฑุŒ ุชูƒูˆู† ุนู†ุฏุฆุฐ ุฅู†ุณุงู†ู‹ุง ุณุนูŠุฏู‹ุง.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
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Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)
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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred.
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Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18 (Fullmetal Alchemist, #18))
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-ุงู„ุนูŠูˆู† ุชุธู‡ุฑ ู‚ูˆุฉ ุงู„ุฑูˆุญ.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmetal heart.
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Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25 (Fullmetal Alchemist, #25))
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When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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ุนู†ุฏู…ุง ุชูƒูˆู† ูƒู†ูˆุฒู†ุง ู‚ุฑูŠุจุฉ ุฌุฏุงู‹ ู…ู†ุงุŒ ูุฅู†ู†ุง ู„ุง ู†ู„ุงุญุธู‡ุง ุฃุจุฏุงู‹ุŒ ุฃุชุนู„ู… ู„ู…ุงุฐุงุŸ ู„ุฃู† ุงู„ู†ุงุณ ู„ุง ูŠุคู…ู†ูˆู† ุจุงู„ูƒู†ูˆุฒ.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man. "What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks. The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
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Paulo Coelho
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Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Thanks for looking out for her, Sage. You're okay. For a human." I almost laughed. "Thanks." "You can say it too, you know." I walked over to Latte and paused. "Say what?" "That I'm okay...for a vampire," he explained. I shook my head, still smiling. "You'll have a hard time getting any Alchemist to admit that. But I can say you're okay for an irreverent party boy with occasional moments of brilliance." "Brilliant? You think I'm brilliant?" He threw his hands skyward. "You hear that, world? Sage says I'm brilliant.
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Richelle Mead (Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1))
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Roy: "Looks like it's starting to rain" Riza: "But..It's not raining..." Roy: "Yes it is. This is the rain.
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Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 4 (Fullmetal Alchemist, #4))
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ูˆุนู†ุฏู…ุง ุชุฑูŠุฏ ุดูŠุฆุงู‹ ู…ุงุŒ ูุฅู† ุงู„ูƒูˆู† ุจุฃุณุฑู‡ ูŠุชุถุงูุฑ ู„ูŠูˆูุฑ ู„ูƒ ุชุญู‚ูŠู‚ ุฑุบุจุชูƒ.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them. You're strong enough to make your own path.-Edward Elric
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Hiromu Arakawa
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It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons weโ€™ve learned as weโ€™ve moved toward that dream. Thatโ€™s the point at which most people give up. Itโ€™s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus. The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus. But this was not how the author of the book ended the story. He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears. 'Why do you weep?' the goddesses asked. 'I weep for Narcissus," the lake replied. 'Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,' they said, 'for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.' 'But... was Narcissus beautiful?' the lake asked. 'Who better than you to know that?' the goddesses asked in wonder. 'After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!' The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: 'I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.' 'What a lovely story,' the alchemist thought.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Adrian tipped my face up toward his and kissed me. Like always, the world around me stopped moving. No, the world became Adrian, only Adrian. Kissing him was as mind-blowing as ever, full of that same passion and need I had never believed Iโ€™d feel. But today, there was even more to it. I no longer had any doubt about whether this was wrong or right. It was a culmination of a long journey . . . or maybe the beginning of one. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. I didnโ€™t care that we were out in public. I didnโ€™t care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime, in the long battle Iโ€™d just signed on for to right the wrongs in the Alchemist and Moroi worlds. Maybe Marcus was right that Iโ€™d also signed myself up for disaster, but I didnโ€™t care. In that moment, it seemed that as long as Adrian and I were together, there was no challenge too great for us. I donโ€™t know how long we stood there kissing. Like I said, the world around me was gone. Time had stopped. I was awash in the feel of Adrianโ€™s body against mine, in his scent, and in the taste of his lips. That was all that mattered right now.
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Richelle Mead (The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines, #3))
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The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first centuryโ€”or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue, embellished with Rococo plasterwork and capped in roofs of uniform red. Baroque cupolas were the soft green of antique copper, and Gothic steeples stood ready to impale fallen angels. The wind carried the memory of magic, revolution, violins, and the cobbled lanes meandered like creeks. Thugs wore Motzart wigs and pushed chamber music on street corners, and marionettes hung in windows, making the whole city seem like a theater with unseen puppeteers crouched behind velvet.
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Laini Taylor (Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1))
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if, in the beginning, there were so few people on the face of the earth, and now there are so many, where did all those new souls come from?" The answer is simple. In certain reincarnations, we divide into two. Our souls divide as do crystals and start, cells and plants." Our soul divides into two, and those souls are in turn transformed into two and so, within a few generations, we are scattered over a large part of the earth. We form part of what the Alchemists call the Anima Mundi, the sould of the world; the truth is that if the Anima Mundi were merely to keep dividing, it would keep growing, but it would also become gradually weaker. That is why, as well as dividing into two, we also find ourselves. And the process of finding ourselves is called love. Because when a sould divides, it always divides into a male part and a female part. In each life, we feel a mysterious boligation to find at least one of those soul mates. The greater love that seperated them feels pleased with the Love that brings them together again. But how will i know who my soul mate is? By taking risks. By rising failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
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Paulo Coelho (Brida)
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Adrian looked over at me again. โ€œWho knows more about male weakness: you or me?โ€ โ€œGo on.โ€ I refused to directly answer the question. โ€œGet a new dress. One that shows a lot of skin. Short. Strapless. Maybe a push-up bra too.โ€ He actually had the audacity to do a quick assessment of my chest. โ€œEh, maybe not. But definitely some high heels.โ€ โ€œAdrian,โ€ I exclaimed. โ€œYouโ€™ve seen how Alchemists dress. Do you think I can really wear something like that?โ€ He was unconcerned. โ€œYouโ€™ll make it work. Youโ€™ll change clothes or something. But Iโ€™m telling you, if you want to get a guy to do something that might be difficult, then the best way is to distract him so that he canโ€™t devote his full brainpower to the consequences.โ€ โ€œYou donโ€™t have a lot of faith in your own gender.โ€ โ€œHey, Iโ€™m telling you the truth. Iโ€™ve been distracted by sexy dresses a lot.โ€ I didnโ€™t really know if that was a valid argument, seeing as Adrian was distracted by a lot of things. Fondue. T-shirts. Kittens. โ€œAnd so, what then? I show some skin, and the world is mine?โ€ โ€œThatโ€™ll help.โ€ Amazingly, I could tell he was dead serious. โ€œAnd youโ€™ve gotta act confident the whole time, like itโ€™s already a done deal. Then make sure when youโ€™re actually asking for what you want that you tell him youโ€™d be โ€˜so, so grateful.โ€™ But donโ€™t elaborate. His imagination will do half the work for you. โ€ I shook my head, glad weโ€™d almost reached our destination. I didnโ€™t know how much more I could listen to. โ€œThis is the most ridiculous advice Iโ€™ve ever heard. Itโ€™s also kind of sexist too, but I canโ€™t decide who it offends more, men or women.โ€ โ€œLook, Sage. I donโ€™t know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is something Iโ€™ve got a lot of experience with.โ€ I think he meant photosynthesis, but I didnโ€™t correct him. โ€œUse my knowledge. Donโ€™t let it go to waste.
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Richelle Mead (The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines, #3))
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ุซู…ุฉ ุชุงุฌุฑ ูƒุจูŠุฑุŒ ุฃุฑุณู„ ุงุจู†ู‡ ู„ูŠูƒุชุดู ุณุฑ ุงู„ุณุนุงุฏุฉ ุนู†ุฏ ุฃูƒุซุฑ ุงู„ุฑุฌุงู„ ุญูƒู…ุฉุŒ ู…ุดู‰ ุงู„ูˆู„ุฏ ุฃุฑุจุนูŠู† ูŠูˆู…ุงู‹ ููŠ ุงู„ุตุญุฑุงุกุŒ ูˆูˆุตู„ ุฃุฎูŠุฑุง ุฃู…ุงู… ู‚ุตุฑ ุฌู…ูŠู„ ูŠู‚ุน ุนู„ู‰ ู‚ู…ุฉ ุฌุจู„ุŒ ูˆู‡ู†ุงูƒ ูƒุงู† ูŠุนูŠุด ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู… ุงู„ุฐูŠ ูŠุฌุฏูู‘ ููŠ ุงู„ุจุญุซ ุนู†ู‡. ูุจุฏู„ ุฃู† ูŠู„ุชู‚ูŠ ุฑุฌู„ุงู‹ ู…ุจุงุฑูƒุงู‹ุŒ ูุฅู† ุจุทู„ู†ุง ุฏุงุฎู„ ุตุงู„ุฉ ุชุนุฌ ุจู†ุดุงุท ูƒุซูŠู: ุชุฌุงุฑ ูŠุฏุฎู„ูˆู† ูˆูŠุฎุฑุฌูˆู†ุŒ ูˆุฃู†ุงุณ ูŠุซุฑุซุฑูˆู†ุŒ ูˆููŠ ุฅุญุฏู‰ ุงู„ุฒูˆุงูŠุง ูุฑู‚ุฉ ู…ูˆุณูŠู‚ูŠุฉ ุตุบูŠุฑุฉ ุชุนุฒู ุฃู„ุญุงู†ุงู‹ ู‡ุงุฏุฆุฉุŒ ูˆูƒุงู† ู‡ู†ุงูƒ ู…ุงุฆุฏุฉ ู…ุญู…ู‘ู„ุฉ ุจู…ุฃูƒูˆู„ุงุช ู…ู† ุฃุทูŠุจ ูˆุฃุดู‡ู‰ ู…ุง ุชู†ุชุฌ ุชู„ูƒ ุงู„ุจู‚ุนุฉ ู…ู† ุงู„ุนุงู„ู…. ู‡ุฐุง ู‡ูˆ ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู… ุงู„ุฐูŠ ูŠุชุญุฏุซ ู…ุน ู‡ุฐุง ูˆุฐู„ูƒุŒ ูˆูƒุงู† ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุดุงุจ ุฃู† ูŠุตุจุฑ ุทูŠู„ุฉ ุณุงุนุชูŠู† ุญุชู‰ ูŠุฃุชูŠ ุฏูˆุฑู‡. ุฃุตุบู‰ ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู… ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ุดุงุจ ุงู„ุฐูŠ ูƒุงู† ุดุฑุญ ู„ู‡ ุฏูˆุงูุน ุฒูŠุงุฑุชู‡ุŒ ู„ูƒู† ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู… ุฃุฌุงุจู‡ ุฃู† ู„ุง ูˆู‚ุช ู„ุฏูŠู‡ ูƒูŠ ูŠูƒุดู ู„ู‡ ุณุฑ ุงู„ุณุนุงุฏุฉุŒ ูˆุทู„ุจ ู…ู†ู‡ ุงู„ู‚ูŠุงู… ุจุฌูˆู„ุฉ ููŠ ุงู„ู‚ุตุฑ ุซู… ุงู„ุนูˆุฏุฉ ู„ุฑุคูŠุชู‡ ุจุนุฏ ุณุงุนุชูŠู†. - ุฃุฑูŠุฏ ุฃู† ุฃุทู„ุจ ู…ู†ูƒ ู…ุนุฑูˆูุงู‹ ู€ ุฃุถุงู ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู… ูˆู‡ูˆ ูŠุนุทูŠ ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ุดุงุจ ู…ู„ุนู‚ุฉ ูƒุงู† ู‚ุฏ ุตุจ ููŠู‡ุง ู‚ุทุฑุชูŠู† ู…ู† ุงู„ุฒูŠุช - ุŒ ุฃู…ุณูƒ ุงู„ู…ู„ุนู‚ุฉ ุจูŠุฏูƒ ุทูˆุงู„ ุฌูˆู„ุชูƒ ูˆุญุงูˆู„ ุฃู„ุง ูŠู†ุณูƒุจ ุงู„ุฒูŠุช ู…ู†ู‡ุง. ุฃุฎุฐ ุงู„ุดุงุจ ูŠู‡ุจุทุŒ ูˆูŠุตุนุฏ ุณู„ุงู„ู… ุงู„ู‚ุตุฑุŒ ู…ุซุจุชุงู‹ ุนูŠู†ูŠู‡ ุฏุงุฆู…ุงู‹ ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ู…ู„ุนู‚ุฉุŒ ูˆุจุนุฏ ุณุงุนุชูŠู† ุนุงุฏ ุฅู„ู‰ ุญุถุฑุฉ ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู…. - ุฅุฐุงู‹ ู€ ุณุฃู„ ู‡ุฐุงุŒ ู‡ู„ ุฑุฃูŠุช ุงู„ุณุฌุงุฏ ุงู„ุนุฌู…ูŠ ุงู„ู…ูˆุฌูˆุฏ ููŠ ุตุงู„ุฉ ุงู„ุทุนุงู…ุŸ ู‡ู„ ุฑุฃูŠุช ุงู„ุญุฏูŠุซุฉ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุฃู…ุถู‰ ูƒุจูŠุฑ ุงู„ุญุฏุงุฆู‚ูŠูŠู† ุณู†ูˆุงุช ุนุดุฑุฉ ููŠ ุชู†ุธูŠู…ู‡ุงุŸ ู‡ู„ ู„ุงุญุธุช ุฃุฑูˆู‚ุฉ ู…ูƒุชุจุชูŠ ุงู„ุฑุงุฆุนุฉุŸ ูƒุงู† ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุดุงุจ ุงู„ู…ุฑุชุจูƒ ุฃู† ูŠุนุชุฑู ุจุฃู†ู‡ ู„ู… ูŠุฑูŽ ุดูŠุฆุงู‹ ู…ู† ูƒู„ ู‡ุฐุง ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฅุทู„ุงู‚ุŒ ูุดุงุบู„ู‡ ุงู„ูˆุญูŠุฏ ูƒุงู† ุฃู„ุง ุชู†ุณูƒุจ ู‚ุทุฑุชุง ุงู„ุฒูŠุฏ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุนู‡ุฏ ู„ู‡ ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู… ุจู‡ู…ุง. - ุญุณู†ุŒ ุนุฏ ูˆุชุนุฑู‘ู ุนู„ู‰ ุนุฌุงุฆุจ ุนุงู„ู…ูŠ - ู‚ุงู„ ู„ู‡ ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู… - ูู„ุง ูŠู…ูƒู† ุงู„ูˆุซูˆู‚ ุจุฑุฌู„ ุชุฌู‡ู„ ุงู„ุจูŠุช ุงู„ุฐูŠ ูŠุณูƒู†ู‡. ุงุทู…ุฃู† ุงู„ุดุงุจ ุฃูƒุซุฑุŒ ูˆุฃุฎุฐุง ุงู„ู…ู„ุนู‚ุฉุŒ ูˆุนุงุฏ ูŠุชุฌูˆู„ ููŠ ุงู„ู‚ุตุฑุŒ ู…ุนูŠุฑุงู‹ ุงู†ุชุจุงู‡ู‡ ู‡ุฐู‡ ุงู„ู…ุฑุฉ ู„ูƒู„ ุฑูˆุงุฆุน ุงู„ูู† ุงู„ุชูŠ ูƒุงู†ุช ู…ุนู„ู‚ุฉ ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฌุฏุฑุงู†ุŒ ูˆููŠ ุงู„ุณู‚ูˆูุŒ ุฑุฃูŠ ุงู„ุจุณุงุชูŠู† ูˆุงู„ุฌุจุงู„ ุงู„ู…ุญูŠุทุฉ ุจู‡ุง ูˆุฑูˆุนุฉ ุงู„ุฒู‡ูˆุฑุŒ ูˆุงู„ุฅุชู‚ุงู† ููŠ ูˆุถุน ูƒู„ ูˆุงุญุฏุฉ ู…ู† ุชู„ูƒ ุงู„ุฑูˆุงุฆุน ููŠ ู…ูƒุงู†ู‡ุง ุงู„ู…ู†ุงุณุจุŒ ูˆุนู†ุฏ ุนูˆุฏุชู‡ ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ุญูƒูŠู…ุŒ ุฑูˆู‰ ู„ู‡ ู…ุง ุฑุขู‡ ุจุงู„ุชูุตูŠู„. - ูˆู„ูƒู† ุฃูŠู† ู‚ุทุฑุชูŠ ุงู„ุฒูŠุช ุงู„ู„ุชูŠู† ูƒู†ุชู ุนู‡ุฏุช ู„ูƒ ุจู‡ู…ุงุŸ ู†ุธุฑ ุงู„ุดุงุจ ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ู…ู„ุนู‚ุฉ ูˆู„ุงุญุธ ุฃู†ู‡ ู‚ุฏ ุณูƒุจู‡ุง. - ุญุณู†ูŒ ู€ ู‚ุงู„ ุญูƒูŠู… ุงู„ุญูƒู…ุงุก ู€ ู‡ุงูƒ ุงู„ู†ุตูŠุญุฉ ุงู„ูˆุญูŠุฏุฉ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุณุฃู‚ูˆู„ู‡ุง ู„ูƒ: " ุณุฑู‘ ุงู„ุณุนุงุฏุฉ ู‡ูˆ ุจุฃู† ุชู†ุธุฑ ุฅู„ู‰ ุนุฌุงุฆุจ ุงู„ุฏู†ูŠุง ูƒู„ู‘ู‡ุงุŒ ูˆู„ูƒู† ุฏูˆู† ุฃู† ุชู†ุณู‰ ุฃุจุฏุงู‹ ูˆุฌูˆุฏ ู‚ุทุฑุชูŠ ุงู„ุฒูŠุช ููŠ ุงู„ู…ู„ุนู‚ุฉ.
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ุจุงูˆู„ูˆ ูƒูˆูŠู„ูˆ (The Alchemist)
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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. The more indifferent people are to politics, to the interests of others, the more obsessed they become with their own faces. The individualism of our time. Not being able to fall asleep and not allowing oneself to move: the marital bed. If high culture is coming to an end, it is also the end of you and your paradoxical ideas, because paradox as such belongs to high culture and not to childish prattle. You remind me of the young men who supported the Nazis or communists not out of cowardice or out of opportunism but out of an excess of intelligence. For nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of nonthoughtโ€ฆ You are the brilliant ally of your own gravediggers. In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty. How to live in a world with which you disagree? How to live with people when you neither share their suffering nor their joys? When you know that you donโ€™t belong among them?... our century refuses to acknowledge anyoneโ€™s right to disagree with the worldโ€ฆAll that remains of such a place is the memory, the ideal of a cloister, the dream of a cloisterโ€ฆ Humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. And nowadays this border has become unrecognizable. The majority of people lead their existence within a small idyllic circle bounded by their family, their home, and their work... They live in a secure realm somewhere between good and evil. They are sincerely horrified by the sight of a killer. And yet all you have to do is remove them from this peaceful circle and they, too, turn into murderers, without quite knowing how it happened. The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. Or to put it the other way around: the desire for order is a virtuous pretext, an excuse for virulent misanthropy. A long time a go a certain Cynic philosopher proudly paraded around Athens in a moth-eaten coat, hoping that everyone would admire his contempt for convention. When Socrates met him, he said: Through the hole in your coat I see your vanity. Your dirt, too, dear sir, is self-indulgent and your self-indulgence is dirty. You are always living below the level of true existence, you bitter weed, you anthropomorphized vat of vinegar! Youโ€™re full of acid, which bubbles inside you like an alchemistโ€™s brew. Your highest wish is to be able to see all around you the same ugliness as you carry inside yourself. Thatโ€™s the only way you can feel for a few moments some kind of peace between yourself and the world. Thatโ€™s because the world, which is beautiful, seems horrible to you, torments you and excludes you. If the novel is successful, it must necessarily be wiser than its author. This is why many excellent French intellectuals write mediocre novels. They are always more intelligent than their books. By a certain age, coincidences lose their magic, no longer surprise, become run-of-the-mill. Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
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Milan Kundera