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If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

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The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

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For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

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Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.

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I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

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Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.

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Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

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Everything in your life can change except ONE: your passion

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As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

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You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

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Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.

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But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

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I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

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Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

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We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

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The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

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Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

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I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.

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No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

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