They have blond hair, or dark skin, butbasically they're the same as the people who live right here.\"\"But I'd like to see the castles in the towns where they live,\" the boyexplained.\"Those people, when they see our land, say that they would like to live hereforever,\" his father continued.\"Well, I'd like to see their land, and see how they live,\" said his son.\"The people who come here have a lot of money to spend, so they can All his life and all his studieswere aimed at finding the one true language of the universe. The other man remarked that tea was alwaysmore delicious when it was served in crystal, because the aroma wasretained. A huge wooden cross. He could sell the stones and buy a return ticket. '\"Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and returned to his exploration ofthe palace, this time observing all of the works of art on the ceilings and thewalls. I hate this tea.\"\"There is no wine in this country,\" the young man said. I wanted them to be a part of yourinheritance. Uponreturning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.\" 'But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?' I know good crystal from bad, andeverything else there is to know about crystal. The people will enjoy the tea andwant to buy the glasses. There was nothing tohold him back except himself. He knew he was stronger than hisfriend.Suddenly, there in the midst of all that confusion, he saw the most beautifulsword he had ever seen. He had already seen manypeople come and go, and the desert remained as it was. Everyone, when they areyoung, knows what their destiny is.\"At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like tosee happen to them in their lives. The alchemist saw the tribal chiefs greet the leader of thecaravan, and converse with him at length.But none of that mattered to the alchemist. For five years he hadbeen working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands ofstones looking for an emerald. I don't want anything else in life.But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have neverknown. I thought that everything Iowned would be destroyed.\"The land was ruined, and I had to find some other way to earn a living. When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, whilethey were erecting the stall, one of them had spoken Arabic and the otherSpanish.And they had understood each other perfectly well.There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought.I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening withpeople. He had spent enormous amounts of timeat the great libraries of the world, and had purchased all the rarest and mostimportant volumes on alchemy. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 48 / 94way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of lifecannot be captured in pictures or words.Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind upforgetting the Language of the World. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 46 / 94\"Go back to watching the caravan,\" he said. He was tense and upset, because he knew that the old manwas right. \"And suddenly, the child took me by both hands andtransported me to the Egyptian pyramids.\"He paused for a moment to see if the woman knew what the Egyptianpyramids were. He realized thathe could do the same thing the old man had donesense whether a personwas near to or far from his destiny. As theysat around the fire, the camel drivers exchanged information about I just want to dream aboutMecca. The merchants were assembling theirstalls, and the boy helped a candy seller to do his. Full text of "The Alchemist" He was about the same age and height as the boy.\"Almost everyone here speaks Spanish. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 14 / 94\"Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by thesame currents,\" said the old man. He hadexchanged six sheep for two precious stones that had been taken from agold breastplate. When thecaravan was blocked by a boulder, it had to go around it; if there was alarge rocky area, they had to make a major detour. \"And ask for aglass of wine for me. There are thousands of kilometers ofdesert between here and there.\"There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was Please enter a valid web address. The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. \"But bakers are moreimportant people than shepherds. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 34 / 94and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.Tangier was no longer a strange city, and he felt that, just as he hadconquered this place, he could conquer the world.\"When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieveit,\" the old king had said.But the old king hadn't said anything about being robbed, or about endlessdeserts, or about people who know what their dreams are but don't want torealize them. Then he said, \"The Prophetgave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations to satisfy during ourlives. Then he realized that he had been distracted for a few moments,looking at the sword. Published 1992. An allegorical novel, The Alchemist follows a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. The sheep fidgeted nearby, uneasy with their newowner and excited by so much change. She hada vessel on her shoulder, and her head was covered by a veil, but her face. He had lived thirty years of his lifebuying and selling crystal pieces, and now it was too late to do anythingelse.He spent the entire morning observing the infrequent comings and goings inthe street. Theboy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersionof the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all peopleare connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all writtenthere.\"Maktub,\" the boy said, remembering the crystal merchant.The desert was all sand in some stretches, and rocky in others. For nearly a year, he had beenworking incessantly, thinking only of putting aside enough money so that hecould return to Spain with pride.\"Never stop dreaming,\" the old king had said. Before you came, I was thinkingabout how much time I had wasted in the same place, while my friends hadmoved on, and either went bankrupt or did better than they had before. \"Everyone has his or her own way of learning things,\"he said to himself. But hewanted to know what the \"mysterious force\" was; the merchant's daughterwould be impressed when he told her about that!\"It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how torealize your destiny. Project Gutenberg. The third said that it was a tradition in the Orient to use crystalglasses for tea because it had magical powers.Before long, the news spread, and a great many people began to climb thehill to see the shop that was doing something new in a trade that was soold. There were oases throughout the desert, but the tribesmen foughtin the desert, leaving the oases as places of refuge.With some difficulty, the leader of the caravan brought all his peopletogether and gave them his instructions. The boy promisedhimself that, when he returned from Egypt, he would buy that sword.\"Ask the owner of that stall how much the sword costs,\" he said to hisfriend. They were solitary individualswho no longer believed in things, and didn't understand that shepherdsbecome attached to their sheep. \"He wants us to leave.\"The boy was relieved. I'm trying to find out where the alchemist lives Two customers came in today while you were working,and that's a good omen.\"People talk a lot about omens, thought the shepherd. In half an hour, he had cleaned all the glasses in the window, and,as he was doing so, two customers had entered the shop and bought somecrystal.When he had completed the cleaning, he asked the man for something toeat. It's with those words that the universal language is written. In lessthan a year, he would have doubled his flock, and he would be able to dobusiness with the Arabs, because he was now able to speak their strangelanguage. The rest is up to Allah, including the danger.\"And he concluded by saying the mysterious word: \"Maktub.\"\"You should pay more attention to the caravan,\" the boy said to theEnglishman, after the camel driver had left. What he needed to do wasreview all he had learned over the years, because the alchemist wouldcertainly put him to the test.The young Arab took out a book and began to read. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 36 / 94an alchemist. Please enter a valid web address. Or beginner's luck.\"The merchant was silent for a few moments. Who knows,maybe they had failed to discover the secret of the Master WorkthePhilosopher's Stoneand for this reason kept their knowledge tothemselves.He had already spent much of the fortune left to him by his father, fruitlesslyseeking the Philosopher's Stone. And move along when it's time to move along.' The shepherd told her of the Andalusian countryside, and related thenews from the other towns where he had stopped. Maybe no one here knows what analchemist is! Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 20 / 94fields of Andalusia, he had become used to learning which path he shouldtake by observing the ground and the sky. \"But I want one-tenthof the treasure, if you find it.\"The boy laughedout of happiness. A small sliver of the stone can transform large quantities of metalinto gold.\"Having heard that, the boy became even more interested in alchemy. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the othersbecome angry. I can pay you to serve as myguide.\"\"Do you have any idea how to get there?\" the newcomer asked.The boy noticed that the owner of the bar stood nearby, listening attentivelyto their conversation. The old woman asked him to swearagain while looking at the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.\"It's a dream in the language of the world,\" she said. The old man,meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to want to returnit at all. And theodor of the animals became a bit more tolerable.A young Arab, also loaded down with baggage, entered, and greeted theEnglishman.\"Where are you bound?\" asked the young Arab.\"I'm going into the desert,\" the man answered, turning back to his reading.He didn't want any conversation at this point. The sheep hadtaught him that.If God leads the sheep so well, he will also lead a man, he thought, and thatmade him feel better. But in the crystal shop you probably realized thateven the glasses were collaborating in your success.\"The boy thought about that for a while as he looked at the moon and thebleached sands. That's why I'm here. He always enjoyed seeing the happiness that the travelersexperienced when, after weeks of yellow sand and blue sky, they first sawthe green of the date palms. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. In his pouch, he had his jackethe certainly wasn't goingto need it in the desert. The link to download The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book in PDF has been shared down below. Every step has to be followedexactly as it was followed by the masters.\"The boy learned that the liquid part of the Master Work was called the Elixirof Life, and that it cured all illnesses; it also kept the alchemist fromgrowing old. 'You cannot trust a man if you don't know his house. It was the time of day when all of Spain slept duringthe summer. Then, taking his sheep, hewalked away. He had studied Latin,Spanish, and theology. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. \"When I'm eating, that's all I think about. But that's the way life is with sheep and The boy thanked him, ate it, and went onhis way. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 49 / 94\"It helped me to trust in people,\" the Englishman answered.Meanwhile, the boy thought about his treasure. But, just before lunchtime, a boy stopped in front of the shop.He was dressed normally, but the practiced eyes of the crystal merchantcould see that the boy had no money to spend. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognizethat it is working for us. I can learn something from the desert, too. The book was written inSpanish. He had helped him out in a dangeroussituation. *\"That's strange,\" said the boy, as he tried once again to read the burial He wasfeeling sorry for himself, and lamenting the fact that his life could havechanged so suddenly and so drastically.He was so ashamed that he wanted to cry. Butchildren always seem to be able to play with them without frightening them.I don't know why. He had learned that there werecertain things one shouldn't ask about, so as not to flee from one's owndestiny. They were content with just food and water, and, in exchange, theygenerously gave of their wool, their company, andonce in a whiletheirmeat.If I became a monster today, and decided to kill them, one by one, theywould become aware only after most of the flock had been slaughtered,thought the boy. And, when someone was in such pursuit, the entire universe madean effort to help him succeedthat's what the old king had said. \"The oases may notshelter armies or troops.\"To the boy's surprise, the Englishman took a chrome-plated revolver out ofhis bag and gave it to the men who were collecting the arms.\"Why a revolver?\" he asked. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because oneperson betrayed me. And, above all, don't forgetto follow your destiny through to its conclusion.\"But before I go, I want to tell you a little story.\"A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happinessfrom the wisest man in the world. The othersare to pray five times a day, fast during Ramadan, and be charitable to thepoor.\"He stopped there. The boy wasstrong, and wanted to retaliate, but he was in a foreign country. Ten years at the university, and here I am in a corral.But he had to move on. The new arrival was a youngman in Western dress, but the color of his skin suggested he was from thiscity. Butthe king of Salem hoped desperately that the boy would be successful.It's too bad that he's quickly going to forget my name, he thought. \"Imagine if everyone went around transforming leadinto gold. He could always become a crystal salesman again. When he's anold man, he's going to spend a month in Africa. An illustration of an open book. An illustration of an open book. Yes, their days were all the same, with the seemingly endless hoursbetween sunrise and dusk; and they had never read a book in their younglives, and didn't understand when the boy told them about the sights of thecities. But you know that I'm not going to go to Mecca. He didn't want tocry with the other people there. He was thinking about omens, and someone hadappeared.\"How come you speak Spanish?\" he asked. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 16 / 94levanter was still getting stronger, and he felt its force on his face. If the sand was too finefor the animals' hooves, they sought a way where the sand was moresubstantial. Ashe did so, both of them pushed through a hole in the pouch and fell to theground. Just by looking at them. \"I dreamed that I was in a fieldwith my sheep, when a child appeared and began to play with the animals. 'As you wanderaround, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.' At the same time, people werepassing my shop all the time, heading for Mecca. 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