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

— Paulo Coelho

#because #loved #loving #needed #no reason

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. ↗

— Albert Finney

#deep #emotion #feels #go #into

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#answer #day #emails #get #i

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#enjoy #freedom #glad #i #i am

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#even #getting #lose #promising #start

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demons #economists #everything #politicians #possible

Music for me, it demands full concentration. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demands #full #me #music

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#beginning #earth #everything #going #made

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#abstract thought #creation #deny #development #fantasies

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings