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“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

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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

“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or - such is the pleasure they experience - they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.”

Love Life May Two Whole Body Together Next Hours Love Is Pleasure Minutes One Day Cups Making Love Day Togetherness Being In Love Eleven Overflow Being Together Eleven Minutes

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.”

Ifs Study Mathematics Math Flesh Lust Mathematical Remedy Math And Science Mathematics And Science Mathematical Logic Studying Mathematics

Book:The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain

“When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.”

Men Choices Cease Be A Man

Author:Anthony Burgess

“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.”

Thinking Children States Married Slave Numb Brainwashed Bell Jar Totalitarian State

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

Inspirational Truth Action Success Answers Failure Atheist Intelligence Experiments Thinker Success And Failure Failure Motivational

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

Sometimes Moments Young Night Felt Loneliness Haunting Dusk Feeling Lonely Clerks Poignant Great Gatsby Gatsby Great Gatsby Important

Book:F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

“You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of being four years old at the beach, crying when the wind came up and blew away the castle she had made. Her mother had told her she could make another one if she liked, but it hadn't stopped her crying because what she had thought was permanent was not permanent after all, but only made out of sand that vanished at the touch of wind and water.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Eye Mother Water Four Cry Wind Raised Beach Permanent His Eyes Sand Four Years Castles

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”

People Ifs Care Able Mother Telling The Truth Truth To Yourself

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.”

Knows Feels Heart Whole Earth Lying Alive Land Breathe Valleys Handful Did You Know Heart Beating

Author:Pam Muñoz Ryan

“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”

World Way Long Self Home Lost Long Time Corners Endless Sufficient Labyrinth Mazes Self Sufficient Looking For Alaska Book Labyrinth Looking For Alaska

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

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