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" 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. "

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" You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort. "

Paulo Coelho

Learning

Moving

Think

" 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 write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. "

" I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing. "

" I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time. "

" I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. "

" Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. "

" It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate. "

" We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. "

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

" Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. "

" No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. "

Paulo Coelho

Looks

Eyes

" You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. "

" Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. "

" I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. "

" I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? "

" When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife. "

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

" All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. "

Paulo Coelho

Love

Men

" I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. "

Paulo Coelho

I Am

Stubborn

" The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. "

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

" You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. "

" Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. "

" I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. "

" When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. "