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Quote by Paulo Coelho
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my p

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

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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 moneys not related to happiness. – Paulo Coelho

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You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. – Paulo Coelho

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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I cant really understand why it doesnt obsess everyone – I think it does really, Im just a little more out about it. – J. K. Rowling

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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti

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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. – Boris Pasternak

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