“When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
“We fall short when we ascribe all the modes of happiness to walking in paths of rectitude. There are joys which only tramps and thieves know.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 116
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