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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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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. – Paulo Coelho

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