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"Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you, but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there." 'We've all felt that.' 'And all of us, one way or another, are mad."
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"Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive."
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"But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded."Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time."
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