The Spy

by Paulo Coelho

“If God gave you a second chance, would you do anything differently?”

I want to know if it will change my life for the better.

He was called Freud—I can’t remember his first name—and people adored him because he had restored the possibility that we are all innocent. Our faults were actually those of our parents.

he was full of malarkey .

“Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.”

and this is one of the reasons i love gardening.

lock of fake hair extension, with a clip to attach it to my natural hair;

so even back then ...

When we don’t know where life is taking us, we are never lost.

“The Decadent Mata Hari: Lots of Exhibitionism but Little Talent,” read the title of the article.

sort of like Madona in our lifetime.

“It’s because I dream of being accepted and respected, though I don’t owe anything to anyone. Why do I need that?

i think most of us do this .

“For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, ‘seeing’ and ‘speaking’ have been separated.

And life moves on and we adjust.

And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide.

“These young women are of great interest for medicine and moralists—small defenseless creatures who, because of feuding heirs, are sent here at ages as young as seven or eight years old, under the guise of ‘parental correction,’ spending their childhoods surrounded by corruption, prostitution, and disease, until, when they are released at eighteen, twenty years old, they no longer have the will to live or return home.”

much like in the movie Changeling (2008) starting angelina jolie

Paulo Coelho has sold more than 200 million books worldwide. His work is published in 81 languages, and he is the most translated living author in the world.