Paulo Coelho Zitate auf Englisch

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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.

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Today, writers want to impress other writers.

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

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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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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.

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I am a Catholic.

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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.

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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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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.

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With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

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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.

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Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

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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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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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

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I don't go to parties in general.

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I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

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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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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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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.

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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

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

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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.

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I'm not a person that socializes very well.

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