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" What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats. "
Paulo Coelho
Fight
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" I was arrested three times and tortured once. "
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" I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. "
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" 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. "
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" No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me. "
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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. "
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" People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open. "
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" MySpace is an addiction. "
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" MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress. "
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" I'm not a person that socializes very well. "
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" You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. "
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" We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. "
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" 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. "
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" Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. "
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" In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation. "
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" Today, writers want to impress other writers. "
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" The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. "
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" 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. "
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" Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. "
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" The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. "
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" In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. "
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" Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. "
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" 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. "
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" I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. "
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" I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge. "
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" I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. "
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" I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. "
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" Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? "
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" I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books. "
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