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The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
by Paulo Coelho
A Favorite of 5, Read by 67, Owned by 56, Reviewed by 2, Quotes 4
Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of central Asia, this new novel by the author of the international bestsellers The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes follows the journey of a man obsessed with finding the wife who left him...(more)
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"That's how love got lost,"  he said. "When we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear."

Paulo Coelho : author of The Alchemist
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He died while he was still alive….

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All men and all women are connected by an energy which many people call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy can't be manipulated, it leads us gently forwards, it contains all we have to learn in this life. It we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.

We could spend the rest of our life saying that we love such a person or thing, when the truth is that we are merely suffering because, instead of accepting love's strength, we  are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live.

Paulo Coelho : author of The Alchemist
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History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time.  History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

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