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" I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul. "

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" My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level. "

Paulo Coelho

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You

" Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity. "

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

" Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. "

" I'm not a person that socializes very well. "

" Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. "

" I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. "

" There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. "

Paulo Coelho

I Am

Convinced

" The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence. "

" In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. "

" I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind. "

" Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. "

Paulo Coelho

Beginning

Earth

" When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. "

" My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul. "

" Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings. "

" I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one. "

" I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. "

" Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. "

" MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress. "

" We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. "

" You should treat a muse like a fairy. "

" When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive. "

" When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. "

" Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. "

" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "

Paulo Coelho

Nature

Life

" Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. "

" The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. "

" My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move. "

" I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom. "