Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
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Paulo CoelhoOriginal title Onze Minutos (Portuguese, 2003)
Eleven Minutes is a 2003 novel by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho that recounts the experiences of a young Brazilian prostitute and her journey to self-realisation through sexual experience.
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
“everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
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“But if I don’t think about love, I will be nothing.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
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“The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
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Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
“Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 50.
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
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“Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
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Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 37.
