sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only joy: love.
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Author Paulo Coelho
Source Eleven Minutes
Topic pain joy
Date 2003
Language English
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Note Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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