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The Alchemist

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by Paulo Coelho

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MELCHIZEDEK, THE KING OF SALEM (THE ALCHEMIST: 24)

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

MELCHIZEDEK, THE KING OF SALEM (THE ALCHEMIST: 24)

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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.

THE ALCHEMIST: 18

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What's the world's greatest lie?

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 greatest lie.

MELCHIZEDEK, THE KING OF SALEM (THE ALCHEMIST: 20)

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If you start out by promising what you don't have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

MELCHIZEDEK, THE KING OF SALEM (THE ALCHEMIST: 27)

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...for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

THE ALCHEMIST: 30

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"Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive..."

"I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living"

...Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

THE ALCHEMIST: 57

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We are afraid of losing what we have ; whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

THE ALCHEMIST: 79

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The Soul of The World

The stories of the famous alchemists who had dedicated their entire lives to purifies metal as they believed that, if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the Soul of the World which allowed them to understand anything on earth, because it was the universal language that understood by everybody.

The discovery called the Master Work, contains of the liquid part was called the Elixir of Life that cured all illness, and the solid part was called the Philosopher's Stone that can transform metal into gold.

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THE ALCHEMIST: 124

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... the love that speaks the Language of the World

THE ALCHEMIST: 124

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The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

THE ALCHEMIST: 131

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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.

THE ALCHEMIST: 134

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The darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

THE ALCHEMIST: 137

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When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

THE ALCHEMIST: 138

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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

THE ALCHEMIST: 155

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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

THE ALCHEMIST: 161

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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.

THE ALCHEMIST: 163

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