“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

— Paulo Coelho , book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 93

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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