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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
- Paulo Coelho
#Boots
#Military
#Most
#Years
#Young
MySpace is an addiction.
- Paulo Coelho
#Addiction
#Myspace
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.
- Paulo Coelho
#Great
#Important
#Just
#Money
#Think
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.
- Paulo Coelho
#Book
#Cannot
#Connect
#Once
#Thoughts
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Dictatorship
#Experience
#Freedom
#Live
I don't go to parties in general.
- Paulo Coelho
#General
#Go
#Parties
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Chatting
#Internet
#Never
#Talk
#Time
I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
- Paulo Coelho
#Become
#Dream
#Since
#Teenager
#Writer
I am a Catholic.
- Paulo Coelho
#Am
#Catholic
#I Am
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
- Paulo Coelho
#Money
#Were
#Writing
#Years Ago
#Years
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
- Paulo Coelho
#Body
#Feet
#I Am
#Man
#Way
This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.
- Paulo Coelho
#Dialogue
#People
#See
#Sound
#World
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Carry
#Genetic
#Happiness
#Survival
#Us
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Doing
#Happiness
#I Am
#Remember
#World
I never say I am a guru.
- Paulo Coelho
#Am
#Guru
#I Am
#Never
#Say
In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
- Paulo Coelho
#Apply
#Creation
#Mystery
#Respect
#Side
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Cannot
#I Am
#Judge
#People
#Work
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Back
#Connection
#Past
#Thinking
#Way
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
#Answer
#Day
#Me
#They Say
#Understand
I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
- Paulo Coelho
#Day
#God
#Man
#Universe
#Walk
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Death
#Follow
#Living
#Nobody
#Parents
Today, writers want to impress other writers.
- Paulo Coelho
#Impress
#Other
#Today
#Want
#Writers
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
- Paulo Coelho
#Free Will
#Free
#Go
#I Am
#Will
I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
- Paulo Coelho
#About
#Free
#I Am
#Something
#Time
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
- Paulo Coelho
#Age
#Jurassic
#Kind
#Publishing
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Difficult
#Feelings
#Hate
#Me
#Work
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
- Paulo Coelho
#Celebrity
#Great
#I Am
#Success
#United
MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.
- Paulo Coelho
#Facebook
#Mistress
#Myspace
#Wife
I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
- Paulo Coelho
#Explain
#Feel
#People
#Personal
#Reading
I'm not a person that socializes very well.
- Paulo Coelho
#Person
#Very
#Well
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
- Paulo Coelho
#Believe
#Media
#Political
#Work
#World
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Childhood
#Dream
#First
#Legend
#Why
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
- Paulo Coelho
#Difficult
#Easy
#I Can
#Modern
#World
Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
- Paulo Coelho
#Book
#Free
#Sales
#See
#Threatening
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.
- Paulo Coelho
#Day
#Evening
#Moment
#Morning
#Time
#Tired
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
- Paulo Coelho
#Answer
#Art
#Religion
#Science
#Who Am I
Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
- Paulo Coelho
#Beginning
#Earth
#Everything
#Man
#Me
I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.
- Paulo Coelho
#Birth
#Me
#Meaning
#New
#Place
I don't try to control my days.
- Paulo Coelho
#Control
#Days
#Try
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Daily
#Joy
#Life
#Money
#Peace
Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
- Paulo Coelho
#Catch
#I Am
#Myself
#Right
#Sometimes
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Literature
#Logic
#Police
#Result
#Soul
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
- Paulo Coelho
#Book
#Difficult
#Read
#Very
#Your
I was arrested three times and tortured once.
- Paulo Coelho
#Arrested
#Once
#Three
#Times
#Tortured
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Crazy
#Impossible
#Me
#Parents
#People
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
- Paulo Coelho
#Best
#Literature
#Myself
#Way
#World
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Face
#Go
#God
#Islam
#See
The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
- Paulo Coelho
#Me
#Only
#The Only Thing
#Thing
#Why
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
- Paulo Coelho
#Energy
#Experience
#Feel
#Name
#Wife
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
- Paulo Coelho
#Clear
#False
#Humility
#Modesty
#Us
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Authenticity
#Fake
#Joy
#Life
#Picture
However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
- Paulo Coelho
#Change
#Desire
#Nobody
#People
#Satisfied
#Woman
I hate to be smart.
- Paulo Coelho
#Hate
#Smart
Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.
- Paulo Coelho
#Always
#Better
#Happen
#Things
#Way
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Book
#Business
#Myself
#People
#Reaction
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
- Paulo Coelho
#Atmosphere
#Bar
#Feeling
#Others
#Sit
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#I Am
#Love
#Shy
#Soul
#Work
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
- Paulo Coelho
#Angels
#Demons
#Politicians
#Possible
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
- Paulo Coelho
#Catholic
#Church
#Face
#God
#I Am
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
- Paulo Coelho
#Concentration
#Demands
#Full
#Me
#Music
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
- Paulo Coelho
#Great
#Happiness
#Important
#Money
#Rich
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Attack
#Feel
#Good
#Intelligent
#More
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Done
#Everything
#High
#Price
#Time
I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
- Paulo Coelho
#Always
#Happiness
#Money
#Person
#Rich
I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
- Paulo Coelho
#Long Time
#Long
#Me
#Time
#Unwind
With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.
- Paulo Coelho
#Due
#Mona
#Overrated
#Respect
You should treat a muse like a fairy.
- Paulo Coelho
#Fairy
#Like
#Muse
#Should
#Treat
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
- Paulo Coelho
#Challenges
#Curiosity
#Fight
#Good
#Life
The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.
- Paulo Coelho
#Arrow
#Shooting
#Tension
#Universe
#Way
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
- Paulo Coelho
#Death
#Follow
#Me
#Parents
#School
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#I Am
#Me
#Reason
#Soul
#World
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
- Paulo Coelho
#Always
#Heaven
#Life
#Love
#Saying
#Worth
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
- Paulo Coelho
#About
#Critics
#Dog
#Hurt
#Think
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
- Paulo Coelho
#Communication
#Day
#Every Day
#Universe
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
- Paulo Coelho
#Always
#Hell
#Love
#Paradise
#Us
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
- Paulo Coelho
#Conversation
#Cry
#Tears
#Waiting
#Words
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
#Humble
#Mystery
#Stop
#Understand
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Fashion
#Good
#Harmony
#Mistake
#Serious
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
- Paulo Coelho
#Contact
#Life
#Lost
#Reality
#Simplicity
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Mistakes
#Opportunity
#People
#Warrior
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#I Am
#Myself
#Soul
#Thinking
#Wife
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
- Paulo Coelho
#Express
#Moment
#Potential
#Start
#World
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
- Paulo Coelho
#I Am
#Rest
#Stubborn
#Virgo
#World
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
- Paulo Coelho
#Desire
#Lose
#Start
#Work
#Your
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
#Society
#Time
#Women
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
- Paulo Coelho
#Anything
#Eyes
#Hide
#Lie
#Someone
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
- Paulo Coelho
#Beautiful
#More
#Simplicity
#Sober
#Will
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
#Effort
#Learning
#Sometimes
#Stop
#Understand
#World
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
- Paulo Coelho
#Explanation
#Failure
#Good
#Success
#You
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
- Paulo Coelho
#Human Condition
#Ideas
#Thoughts
#Want
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
- Paulo Coelho
#Fool
#Fools
#Love
#Understand
#Wise
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Attention
#Blind
#Day
#Matter
#Miracle
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
- Paulo Coelho
#Go
#Internet
#Open
#People
#Talk
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
- Paulo Coelho
#Light
#Love Is
#Love
#See
#Shadows
The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
- Paulo Coelho
#More
#Passes
#Quicker
#Storm
#Violent
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
- Paulo Coelho
#Beauty
#Greatest
#Man
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
- Paulo Coelho
#Days
#Forever
#Good Old Days
#Good
#Old
No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.
- Paulo Coelho
#Angel
#Feel
#Me
#Never
#Presence
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Attitude
#Go
#Life
#Person
#Political
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.
- Paulo Coelho
#Faith
#Harmony
#More
#Reality
#Yourself
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