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Twilight is absolutely fantastic. The first word up to the last keeps your imagination open. New Moon was okay, I started to hate Bella as she's so overly dramatic and self-centered. Breaking Dawn was almost as good as Twilight. Eclipse was the final
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“If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
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...."whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. ...more
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