“Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning.”

— 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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