“Defeat means that we lose a particular battle or war. Failure does not allow us to go on fighting.”

— Paulo Coelho, book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), The Defeated Ones

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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