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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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. Its very simple. – Paulo Coelho

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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. – Paulo Coelho

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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno

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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. – Kate Atkinson

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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it. – Abu Bakr

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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. – William Butler Yeats

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