Aleph (edit title/settings)

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• Paulo Coelho: searching for greater meaning and peace
• Hilal: Impulsive, Young
• Priyadarshini: Doctoral Researcher
• J.: Paulo's Spiritual Guru
• Valentia: Yao's dead wife
• Shaman: The Dark-art performer of Lake Baikal, Irkutusk
• Yao: Add a description of this character.
• Tatiana
• Mayakovsky

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• “"When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward."”

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• It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

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• When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

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• If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.”

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• To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

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• Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.”

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• That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment.

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• I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time.

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• “If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to like the rain.”

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• There’s no point explaining that all we achieve by exacting revenge is to make ourselves the equals of our enemies, whereas by forgiving we show wisdom and intelligence.

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• They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Aleph
• Moscow
• Russia
• Mônica
• Novosibirsk
• Ekaterinburg
• Siberia
• London
• Brazil
• Irkutsk
• Heaven
• Turkey
• France
• Vladivostok
• Tunis
• Rome
• Asia
• Pacific Ocean

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Paulo Coelho (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction

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