“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
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<p>The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.</p> <p>A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex.</p> <p>Eventually, Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness, 'sexual pleasure for its own sake', or risking everything to find her own 'inner light' and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.</p> <p>A daring modern fable about the nature of love and sex.</p>
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Paulo Coelho
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“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
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“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
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“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
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“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
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“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the...”
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“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the...”
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“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
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“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that...”
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“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
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“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path. No on...”
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“-Hija mía, eres joven, tienes toda la vida por delante. Lee. Olvida lo que te hayan dicho sobre los libros, y lee.”
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“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...”
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“I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’ time, I’ll be far...”
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