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“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“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.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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