“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.”

— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist

Variant: You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... the love that speaks the Language of the World.
Source: The Alchemist

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