“Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.”

—  Paulo Coelho , book The Fifth Mountain

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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