More quotes by Paulo Coelho

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."
"What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate."
"Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum."
"You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world."