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Veronika Decides to Die quotes

Paulo Coelho

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“You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the...” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Nothing in this world happens by chance.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Many people don’t allow themselves to love . . . because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“what is reality? . . . It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that supports the desires of society as a whole.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Veronika knew that life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Now, my dear husband, you must have a vacation every year, and make me climb some dangerous mountains, because I need to run the risk of being alive. ” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“She didn’t quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“it’s best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“We all live in our own world. But if you lookup at the starry sky, you’ll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“While I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“She would consider each day a miracle — which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don’t know they’re crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“She entered a kind of euphoric state, as if death had freed her from the fear of dying.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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