“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

—  Paulo Coelho , book Eleven Minutes

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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