Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Knowledge is an illusion. Ecstasy is the true reality. Knowledge fills us with guilt. Ecstasy allows us to be one with he who is the Universe, before it existed, and after it has been destroyed.

Some things are governed by common sense. Putting buttons on the front of a shirt is a matter of logic, since it would be very difficult to button them up at the side, and impossible if they were at the back. "Other things, however, become fixed because more and more people believe that's the way they should be. I'll give you two examples. Have you ever wondered why the keys on a typewriter are arranged in that particular order?

Cuando no tuve nada que perder, lo recibí todo. Cuando dejé de ser quien era, me encontré a mi misma

Some people say that, as summer approaches, we start to have weird ideas; we feel smaller because we spend more time out in the open air, and that makes us aware of how large the world is. The horizon seems farther away, beyond the clouds and the walls of our house.

The most sophisticated things in the world are precisely those within the reach of everyone.

No one day is like another,each tomorrow has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars are created.

we are responsible for the Universe, because we are the Universe' (Brida)

Every person on earth has a gift, he began. In some, the gift manifests itself spontaneously; others have to work to discover what it is.

Setiap orang di dunia ini, apa pun pekerjaannya, memainkan peran penting dalam sejarah dunia. Dan biasanya orang itu sendiri tidak menyadarinya.

The art of sex is the art of controlled abandon.

You can say what you like, but words won't change anything. I'm not happy.

Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Naturally, I seek consolation in other people's suffering.

If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realized that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body.

because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss

Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

We should live each and every day with the certainty that this armor will protect us from danger, and then we will no longer be bound to the duality of existence. We have to find a middle path, where there is neither joy nor suffering, only profound peace.

Love perseveres. It's men who change.

May it always be clear that only True Love can compete with any other Love in this world. When we give everything, we have nothing more to lose. And then fear, jealousy, boredom, and monotony disappear, and all that remains is the light from a void that does not frighten us, but brings us closer to one another. The light that always changes, and that is what makes it beautiful and full of surprises—not always those we hope for, but those we can live with.

On the myth of Eros) Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true face of love? And I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.

Memories bring with them a devil called melancholy—oh, cruel demon that I cannot escape. Hearing

I wake up each morning wanting to die before the day is out, but I continue to live, suffering and fighting, fighting and suffering, clinging on to that certainty that it will all end one day.