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“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”

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Paulo Coelho, born on August 24, 1947, is a renowned Brazilian author and lyricist. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and rich imagination, with his most famous novel being 'The Alchemist'. more

“I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.”

People Way Humans Littles Doe Ends Feelings Reality Seems Desire Grows Human Beings Secret Terrible Melancholy Smooth Pits Life Happiness Slipping

Book:Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.”

Thinking Want Giving Wells Wanted Lasts Lying Desire Rooms Eternal Eternity Unexpected Delightful Torment

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.”

People Book Together Creating Forgotten Tape Not Interested Worn Shelves Very Happy Worn Out Scotch Scotch Tape

Author:Richard Scarry

“Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool." "I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her. "Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat.”

Littles Said Remember Dog Missing Please Very Good Boxes Chocolate Where You Come Coraline Box Of Chocolates Toffee

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.”

Mother Sea Hair Plant

Book:Coraline

Source: Coraline

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

World Littles Edges Shimmer

Book:Coraline

Source: Coraline

“But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”

Knows Long Said Important Ends Felt Risk Disappointment Triumph Soulmate Taking Risks Important Questions Disillusion Searching For Love Brida My Soulmate

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.”

Shows Literature Emotion Produce Tendencies Respectable Irritation Hives

Book:Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons

Source: Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons

“Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”

Mean Happens Dies Grows Growing Up Vampire Old Woman Vampire Movie

Author:Anne Rice

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