One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

—Paulo Coelho

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About Paulo Coelho

Portrait of Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho de Souza ( KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel The Alchemist is an international best-seller.

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It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

—Paulo Coelho

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

—Paulo Coelho

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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

—Artemus Ward

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Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

—George Santayana

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Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens—for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he’d eventually leave. I knew we couldn’t be together, but I fell anyway.

—Suzanne Selfors in Coffeehouse Angel

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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

—George Carlin

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

—Charles Baudelaire

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