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The Alchemist Study Guide

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by Paulo Coelho
About 43 pages (12,980 words)
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"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it."

"It's called the principle of favorability, beginner's luck. Because life wants you to achieve your destiny."

"There must be a language that doesn't depend on words. I've had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening with people."

"All things are one."

"People talk a lot about omens. But they don't really know what they're saying. Just as I hadn't realized for so many years that I had been speaking a language without words to my sheep."

"Never stop dreaming. Follow the omens."

"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same.....

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