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The Alchemist (1988)
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The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
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Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.
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It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny
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But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.
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And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
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At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
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If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
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His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
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In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.
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This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
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Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.
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People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
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The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.
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Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.
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People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.
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When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.
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So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
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God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
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I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
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There is only one way to learn … It's through action.
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We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.
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We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.
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If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
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People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.
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August 24, 1947
(age 76)
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