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The Winner Stands Alone
The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel | Paulo Coelho
[Coelhos] special talent seems to be his ability to speak to everyone at once. The kind of spirituality he espouses is to all comers. . . . His readers often say that they see their own lives in his own books. New Yorker From the bestselling author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, comes an absorbing new novel that holds a mirror up to our cultures obsession with fame, glamour, and celebrity.
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Philonist
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A heart wrenching tale of how success and commitment to luxury distort our ideals to the point of relinquishing the ones we love and care for most.

"If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free."

" Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...." ( This is the best line I've read in months.)

There are plenty more lines from this book that I wish to put here, sadly I don't have enough characters left. ?.

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Martta
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Mehso-so

This is sooo Paulo Coelho. 😂 It was nice to read him again. The last time was years and years ago. I feel like back then I got somehow more inside his stories. I remember loving The Devil and miss Prym and Veronika decides to die. This was ok but I still think those two as my favourites.

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Martta
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Audiowalk 🐸😍

Megabooks I haven‘t seen a frog in years. #poorenvirinment #climatechangesucks 4y
Martta @Megabooks I think frogs need very clean water around where they live. Atleast I remember somebody telling me when I was a child that if a pond has frogs in/around it then the water is relatively clean. 🤔 4y
Megabooks I learned something similar to what you learned, and the surface water in my county has a lot of pesticides and animal waste from farming. I also learned that amphibians are the first markers of climate change in an area, and I haven‘t regularly seen frogs in 20 years. 😩 4y
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Martta @Megabooks Oh no! I'm glad that (almost) everyone is starting to take the climate change seriously. Which country are you from? 4y
Megabooks @Martta the US, Kentucky state and a rural area of it. What about you? 4y
Martta @Megabooks Finland, Helsinki/Vantaa area (two cities very close to each other, I live close to their border) 4y
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Martta
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Audiowalk 🎧

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Shiv11
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Pickpick

Just got this one.✌️
Starting is amazing.😍

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KerriNTurner
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The place I‘m staying at provided these books. Any you‘d recommend?

DivineDiana Well, I have read Anita Shreve, but not that one. 🤔 6y
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kimbers
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I loved the suspense. It‘s always a joy reading Paulo‘s books

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kimbers
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Love
Death
Power
Time
...is the recurring theme here

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kimbers
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My favorite line so far “vanity of vanities...”

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kimbers
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11.45 a.m

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kimbers
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This analogy got me thinking about my own life... 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

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kimbers
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We stay trying to prove our worth to others..

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kimbers
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We stay trying to prove our worth to others...

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kimbers
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So I stoped by the library and...

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GatheringBooks
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#Septembowie Day 16: Along with being a winner comes #Fame - but then again you stand alone. Sounds lonely to me.

Cinfhen Fame can definitely be lonely 😞 7y
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