“Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Defeat
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Paulo Coelho 844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes

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Context: People with intelligence will use it to fashion things both true and false and will try to push through whatever they want with their clever reasoning. This is injury from intelligence. Nothing you do will have effect if you do not use truth.
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