\"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. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 12 / 94succeeded in discovering your destiny.\"The boy didn't know what a person's \"destiny\" was.\"It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought tohimself, and decided to say nothing. But this fear evaporates when we understandthat our life stories and the history of the world were written by the samehand.\"Sometimes, their caravan met with another. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. He went on tellingstories about his travels, and her bright, Moorish eyes went wide with fearand surprise. He was planning, on this visit, to explain to the girl howit was that a simple shepherd knew how to read. \"That's it! \"There are rumors of tribal wars,\" he told them.The three fell silent. Then, like a colony of worker ants, theydismantled their stalls and left.The sun began its departure, as well. The boy swore to Jesus Christ. He was going to be able to save thelittle money he had because of a dream about hidden treasure!\"Well, interpret the dream,\" he said.\"First, swear to me. The wise man conversed with everyone, andthe boy had to wait for two hours before it was his turn to be given theman's attention.\"The wise man listened attentively to the boy's explanation of why he hadcome, but told him that he didn't have time just then to explain the secret ofhappiness. The Alchemist - read free eBook by Paolo Coelho in online reader directly on the web page. But then he remembered that he wasn't going to have topay anything.\"I didn't need to waste my time just for this,\" he said.\"I told you that your dream was a difficult one. Itwas something that I thought could happen only to others, never to me. He remembered that he had a number of things he had to takecare of: he went to the market for something to eat, he traded his book forone that was thicker, and he found a bench in the plaza where he couldsample the new wine he had bought. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 18 / 94\"The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace,keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. Then leave with the caravan. Maybe that'swhy they always stay close to me.The only things that concerned the sheep were food and water. The Alchemist a novel by Paulo Coelho. He canceled all hiscommitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and nowhere he was, sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. An alchemist.\"The conversation was interrupted by the warehouse boss.\"You're in luck, you two,\" the fat Arab said. He took Urim and Thummim fromhis pocket, and began playing with them.The stranger shouted, \"Urim and Thummim!\"In a flash the boy put them back in his pocket.\"They're not for sale,\" he said.\"They're not worth much,\" the Englishman answered. He had been to the village only once, the year before. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have,because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.He opened his pouch to see what was left of his possessions; maybe therewas a bit left of the sandwich he had eaten on the ship. They never have to make any decisions, he thought. But, most important, hewas able every day to live out his dream. I can learn something from the desert, too. The Alchemist is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Then he turned to theboy.\"I am proud of you,\" he said. 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. The boy had noticed that the Englishman was irritable, and missed hisbooks.\"So that those who have the responsibility for understanding canunderstand,\" he 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. For five years he hadbeen working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands ofstones looking for an emerald. 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. And he knew that shepherds, likeseamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there wassomeone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.The day was dawning, and the shepherd urged his sheep in the direction ofthe sun. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 37 / 94scene that began the book. There you will find a treasure that will make you a rich man.\"The boy was surprised, and then irritated. One afternoon, on a visit to his family,he had summoned up the courage to tell his father that he didn't want tobecome a priest. He quickly pulled his hands away.\"I didn't come here to have you read my palm,\" he said, already regrettinghaving come. He almostbegan to tell about his treasure, but decided not to do so. \"The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. \"In school.\"\"Well, if you know how to read, why are you just a shepherd?\"The boy mumbled an answer that allowed him to avoid responding to herquestion. \"I hold thepower of life and death for every person I take with me. At othertimes, at a crucial moment, I make it easier for things to happen. But he knew that Salem wasn't in Andalusia. But, whichever it is, I'm going to chargeyou for the consultation.\"Another trick, the boy thought. But wetwo have to live with our mistakes.\"That's true enough, the boy thought, ruefully.\"Why did you think we should have the display?\" 'You cannot trust a man if you don't know his house. He hadalways believed that the sheep were able to understand what he said. That's where I was born.\"\"Well then, we could say that I was born in Salem.\"The boy didn't know where Salem was, but he didn't want to ask, fearingthat he would appear ignorant. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Summary & Analysis Themes Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Wheel Teachers and parents! But instead of being saddened, he was happy. ISBN -7225-3293-8. He had already seen manypeople come and go, and the desert remained as it was. \"People will pass byand bump into it, and pieces will be broken.\"\"Well, when I took my sheep through the fields some of them might havedied if we had come upon a snake. \"That first day, everyone slept from exhaustion, including the Englishman.The boy was assigned a place far from his friend, in a tent with five otheryoung men of about his age. Maybe theworld had other hidden treasures, but he had a dream, and he had met witha king. From where hestood, he saw for the first time that the old merchant's hair was very muchlike the hair of the old king. There are thousands of kilometers ofdesert between here and there.\"There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was Eventhough the sheep didn't teach me to speak Arabic.But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that therewas a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boyhad used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at theshop. He felt uneasy at the man's presence. But thistime I'll be smarter, the boy thought, removing them from the pouch so hecould put them in his pocket. He recognized that he was feeling something he had neverexperienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. He had learned that there werecertain things one shouldn't ask about, so as not to flee from one's owndestiny. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. Bycoincidenceor maybe it was an omen, the boy thoughthe came to thebar he had entered on his first day there. Theboy knew, and was now working toward it. \"I'm herebecause a friend of mine heard of an Arab who\"But the caravan began to move, and it was impossible to hear what theEnglishman was saying. They filled threesacks. But he trusted in the old man, whohad said that, when you really want something, the universe alwaysconspires in your favor. 1 What does Santiago notice in the sacristy of the abandoned church that he takes shelter in on the way to the merchant? That's why I'm here. It reminded him of thewool from his sheep his sheep who were now seeking food and water inthe fields of Andalusia, as they always had.\"They're not my sheep anymore,\" he said to himself, without nostalgia.\"They must be used to their new shepherd, and have probably alreadyforgotten me. Both times.\"The woman was silent for some time. He also tried to remembersome good stories to relate as he sheared the sheep. The boy could see in his father's gaze adesire to be able, himself, to travel the worlda desire that was still alive,despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under theburden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place tosleep every night of his life. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 24 / 94Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther thanany shepherd he knew. The treasure is at thePyramids; that you already knew. That waswhat made traveling appeal to himhe always made new friends, and hedidn't need to spend all of his time with them. I shouldhave repeated it for him. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 43 / 94He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the faceof the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animalor even justa simple thought.\"Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth isalive and it has a soul. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 1 / 94 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. \"What kind of Arab are you?\"\"That's a good luck omen,\" the Englishman said, after the fat Arab had goneout. Theboy felt ill and terribly alone. \"Inany case, it's good that you've learned that everything in life has its price.This is what the Warriors of the Light try to teach.\"The old man returned the book to the boy.\"Tomorrow, at this same time, bring me a tenth of your flock. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other peopleshould lead their lives, but none about his or her own.He decided to wait until the sun had sunk a bit lower in the sky beforefollowing his flock back through the fields. pdf INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, 2012 Brahim EL FEZZAZI Paulo Coelho Full PDF Package This Paper A short summary of this paper 1 Full PDF related to this paper Download Download Full PDF Package Translate PDF Sometimes, there's just no way tohold back the river. And, when someone was in such pursuit, the entire universe madean effort to help him succeedthat's what the old king had said. When the people saw thatstar shining in the morning sky, they knew they were on the right coursetoward water, palm trees, shelter, and other people. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 1 / 94 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. Heneeded someone to talk to so as to avoid thinking about the possibility ofwar.\"I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soulcan also understand the language of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strongcurrent that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he firstmade the decision.When I decided to seek out my treasure, I never imagined that I'd wind upworking in a crystal shop, he thought. 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