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The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho

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After reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho my life was radically transformed. My frame of reference expanded and my desire to not only travel but to listen to myself blossomed. The Alchemist journals about the travel of Santiago, a humble shepherd who resides in Spain and journeys far to Egypt with much adversity. His adventure was so astounding to me due to its origin in a dream read by a gypsy. I divulged heavily into his odyssey seeing symbols during each turn. For example, the desert symbolized the innate difficulty in pursuing your personal destiny. My thoughts mutated with Coelho’s narrative, from him I inherited the belief that personal legends do matter, that it really is the quest that counts, and that home is a place that will always
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