The Spy

by Paulo Coelho

Apparently foreigners were not welcome, or Parisians thought they were superior to all other peoples of the earth.

“Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations. Improve your dancing, practice a lot, and set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist’s mission: to go beyond one’s limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.”

I was an exotic bird traversing an earth ravaged by humanity’s poverty of spirit.

The true sin is something different than what we’ve been taught; the true sin is living so far removed from absolute harmony. That is more powerful than the truths and lies we tell every day.