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“Maktub" (It is written.)”

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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

“Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.”

Knows Men Giving Mind Mean Philosophy Problem Values Interest Study Subjects Goodness Intellectual Solutions Concerned Practicals Engaged Branches Good Man

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.”

Source: The Plague

“…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.”

People May Mean Ideas Matter Fighting Common Heroism Plague Decency Common Decency

Book:The plague: translated from the French

Source: The plague: translated from the French

“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

Ifs Earth Nature Tree Rooted Nature Beauty Heaviness Nature And Beauty Nature's Beauty

Book:In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

Source: In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

“All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.”

Ifs Knows May I Can Earth Force Sound Simple Judging Victim Pestilence Childishness

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.”

Knows Men War Imagination Millions Hundred Smoke Substance Existentialism Corpses Dead Man Puff

Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague

“It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.”

Ifs Years Facts Funny Loses Intelligence California Scientific Facts

Book:Conversations with Capote

Source: Conversations with Capote

“It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.”

Dies Los Angeles Redundant

Author:Truman Capote

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