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Aleph

Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. In his most personal novel to date, internationally bestselling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist,

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Paulo Coelho (95)

“Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely”.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Don’t let yourself be destroyed by a force that was placed in our hearts in order to make everything better.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it’s blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn’t solve anything.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“What did I do to deserve this?”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“That’s because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn’t teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Love always triumphs over what we call death. That’s why there’s no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now.…”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same—””

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Of giving, even when I have nothing,”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“I can’t tell someone that their dreams are impossible.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“I forgive the tears I was made to shed,”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“What can’t be cured must be endured.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new exp…”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you’re capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“I have only one certainty: there exists a parallel spiritual universe that impinges on the world in which we live. Apart from that, everything else seems absurd to me—sacred books, revelations, guides, manuals, ceremonies … and, what is worse, they appear to have no lasting effects.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com