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Paulo Coelho

686 quotesNovelist · Born Aug 24, 1947 · Brazilian · Male

Paulo Coelho de Souza (/ˈkwɛljuː/, /kuˈɛl-/, /-joʊ/, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. Early in 2017 he has been nominated by the Albert Einstein Foundation as one of the 100 leading visionaries of our time . His novel The Alchemist has been translated into 81 languages. According to The Washington Post, Paulo Coelho has sold an estimated 350 million books and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese-language author. 2Early life Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil and attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded, "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?" At 17, Coelho's introversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 2

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From “The Witch of Portobello”

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the…

Love Heartbreak Holding On

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Heartbreak Pain Love

From “The Delux Collection - Paulo Coelho: Box Set”

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love.

Dating Love Relationships

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.’

Love Relationships First Love

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

Relationships Love

When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.

Dating Love Relationships

Love simply is.

Dating Relationships Love

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Love Relationships

From “The Spy ”

Because when we truly love, we know others and ourselves betters. We do not need words, documents, minutes, statements, accusations or defenses.

Love emotions Feelings

Love does not obey anyone and will betray those who try to decipher its mystery.

Love emotions Feelings

Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears

Love emotions Feelings

Dear Mata Hari, your biggest mistake was having found the wrong man to do the right thing.

Love Wrong Choices mistake

I did it all for love, only for love...an unrequited love. but what does that matter? What really matters is being close to the one you love; that was my goal.

Love Unrequited Love

I had long since lost any illusion of being loved for who I was and now accepted, with a clean conscience, flowers, flattery, and money that fed my ego and my false identity. For certain, I'd go to my grave one day without knowing love, but what difference did it make? For me, love and power were…

Love Heartbreak Quotes

And without giving it much thought, I began to tell him about my life -- something that I had kept to myself up until then because it was all just one lie after the other.

Opening Up Love

When a woman or a man is abandoned by the person they love, they are focused on their own pain. No one stops to wonder what is happening to the other person.

Love Heartbreak Pain

Love kills suddenly. Leaving no evidence of the crime.

Love Falling In Love Heartbreak

Never fall in love. Love is a poison. Once you fall in love, you lose control over your life -- your heart and mind belong to someone else. Your existence is threatened.

Love Falling In Love Heartbreak

I fought for our love with all my might, but today it's run out. The stone that weighed on my heart is now a rock that will no longer let it beat. And my heart, with its last breath, told me there are other worlds beyond this one, worlds where I don't have to always beg for the company of a man to…

Heartbreak Pain Love

From “The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel (P.S.)”

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

Love Set Free Letting Go

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