“Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life”

— Paulo Coelho

Variant: close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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