“But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.”

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

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