Paulo Coelho Quotes

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Paulo Coelho

Profession : Novelist

Birth : August 24, 1947

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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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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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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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

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

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

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Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

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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.

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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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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 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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With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

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I'm not a person that socializes very well.

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Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

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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.

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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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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

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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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