 | Paulo Coelho: Eleven MinutesHarperCollins Publishers Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter.More... Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. 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. |
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
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Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
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That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
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Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
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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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