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“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“when we release our dark side, it will completely overshadow the best in us.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I haven’t the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“When you love each other, you have to be ready for anything. Because love is like a kaleidoscope, the kind we used to play with when we were kids. It’s in constant movement and never repeats itself. If you don’t understand this, you are condemned to suffer for something that really only exists to make us happy.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn't know why life is being unfair to it".”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“Could it be fear? But what could be worse than living a sad, gray life, in which every day is the same? What could be worse than the fear that everything will disappear, including my own soul, and leave me completely alone in this world when I once had everything I needed to be happy?”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“Living is making decisions and dealing with the consequences.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I imagine that some people spend years allowing the pressure to build up inside them without even noticing, and then one day some tiny incident triggers a crisis. Then they say: “I’ve had enough, I don’t want this anymore.” Some commit suicide. Others get divorced. Some go to poor parts of Africa to try to save the world. But I know myself. I know that my only reaction will be to repress my feelings until a cancer starts eating me up inside. Because I do actually believe that many illnesses are the result of repressed emotions.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“Feeling that the simplest of tasks requires a Herculean effort. Being riddled with guilt because you have no reason to feel like this when there are so many people in the world who are really suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“You don’t choose your life; it chooses you. There’s no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on. We can’t choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we’re given.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“It’s thrilling to fight for a love that’s entirely unrequited. It might not be much fun. It might leave profound and lasting scars. But it’s interesting—especially for a person who, for years now, has been afraid of taking risks and who has begun to be terrified by the possibility that things might change without her being able to control them. I’m not going to repress my feelings any longer. This challenge is my salvation.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“We already have everything we need. There is nothing to improve. Thinking we are good or bad, fair or unfair, all that is nonsense.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn’t know why life is being unfair to it. But we still wake up in the morning and take care of our children, our husband, our lover, our boss, our employees, our students, those dozens of people who make an ordinary day come to life. And we often have a smile on our face and a word of encouragement, because no one can explain their loneliness to others, especially when we are always in good company. But this loneliness exists and eats away at the best parts of us because we must use all our energy to appear happy, even though we will never be able to deceive ourselves. But we insist, every morning, on showing only the rose that blooms, and keep the thorny stem that hurts us and makes us bleed hidden within.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“There is none so blind as the one who does not want to see.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“Naturally, I seek consolation in other people’s suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“May it always be clear that only True Love can compete with any other Love in this world. When we give everything, we have nothing more to lose. And then fear, jealousy, boredom, and monotony disappear, and all that remains is the light from a void that does not frighten us, but brings us closer to one another. The light that always changes, and that is what makes it beautiful and full of surprises—not always those we hope for, but those we can live with.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I can’t control myself, that’s my problem.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I feel like saying: Yes, I did something I shouldn’t have done and yet I don’t feel the tiniest bit guilty, just afraid of being found out.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“To love abundantly is to live abundantly. To love forever is to live forever. Eternal life is coupled with Love. Why do we want”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“You may be mentally exhausted, convinced that your nonexistent problems—problems you know are nonexistent—are draining you of all your energy.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I’m wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“the world has stopped. Not just my world, but the world of everyone around me. When we meet with friends, we always talk about the same things and the same people. The conversations seem new, but it’s all just a waste of time and energy. We’re trying to prove that life is still interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don’t fit with what we call “maturity.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I’m tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That’s what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery