“You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? … I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn’t turn into … a Zahir.”

—  Paulo Coelho, book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir (2005), p. 128.

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