“I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.”
Source: The Alchemist
“I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.”
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
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