“Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.”

—  Paulo Coelho, book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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