“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”

— Paulo Coelho, book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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