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The Alchemist
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Amy
Mar 31, 2016 rated it really liked it
Paulo Coelho echoed my thoughts just this past weekend, about traveling: "[I] always [make] new friends, and [I don't] need to spend all of [my] time with them. When someone sees the same people everyday... they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change." I thought of my new friends from the Kilimanjaro trip, I thought of the friends I traveled with in the past. Each their own character. Each loveable and memorable because of their quirks. Let them be ...more
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Dec 12, 2015 rated it really liked it
I liked this a lot. Just got a little heavy handed with the philosophy at times in my opinion.
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