Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple."
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"I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple."
"لقد كنت سعيدة للغاية في كلتا زيجتيّ. وكنتُ خائنة، وكذلك كانا هما، تمامًا كأي زوجين عاديين آخرين."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression."
"يمارس ملايين الأزواج فن السادية المازوخية كل يوم، دون أن يدركوا ذلك. يذهبون إلى العمل، يعودون، يتذمرون من كل شيء، يهينون زوجاتهم أو يتعرضون للإهانة منهن، يشعرون بالبؤس، ومع ذلك، يظلون مقيدين بشدة بتعاستهم، غير مدركين أن كل ما يتطلبه الأمر هو إيماءة واحدة، وداع أخير، ليتحرروا من ذلك القهر."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side."
"لقد أدركت أن الانتظار هو الجزء الأصعب، وأرغب في أن أعتاد هذا الشعور، عالمًا أنك معي، حتى وإن لم تكن بجانبي."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously."
"بدلاً من أن أشتري لك شيئًا ترغب فيه، أمنحك شيئًا هو ملكي، ملكي حقًا. هدية، علامة احترام للشخص الذي أمامي. والآن، لديك قطعة صغيرة مني معك، منحتك إياها بحرية وعفوية."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility."
"نحن بشر، نولد مثقلين بالذنب؛ يغشانا الرعب حينما يصبح السعادة احتمالاً حقيقياً."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly."
"الحب، بلا شك، كان من القوى القادرة على قلب حياة المرء رأساً على عقب، في لحظة واحدة. لكن للعملة وجهاً آخر، القوة الثانية التي بوسعها أن تدفع الإنسان لسلوك درب مغاير تماماً لما رسمه لنفسه؛ وتلك كانت تُدعى اليأس. أجل، لعل الحب كان بوسعه حقاً أن يغير المرء، لكن اليأس كان أسرع منه فعلاً."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"What made you fall in love with a prostitute'I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.''Weren't you jealous"'You can't say to the spring: "Come now and last as long as possible." You can only say: "Come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you can."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. She just hoped that this time she was right."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body."
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
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