Looking at the sun, hecalculated that he would reach Tarifa before midday. But the alchemists were strange people, who thought onlyabout themselves, and almost always refused to help him. The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. That morning he had knowneverything that was going to happen to him as he walked through thefamiliar fields. 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. I can't help you if you feel you've gotenough sheep.\"The boy was getting irritated. But, most important, hewas able every day to live out his dream. One always had something thatthe other neededas if everything were indeed written by one hand. Outside, a hugecaravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and wasscheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.I'm going to find that damned alchemist, the Englishman thought. I've already imagined a thousand times crossing the desert, arrivingat the Plaza of the Sacred Stone, the seven times I walk around it beforeallowing myself to touch it. When I was young, all Iwanted to do was put together enough money to start this shop. \"You and I aren't like Hassan, that richmerchant. In the desert, disobedience means death.\"There was a murmur from the crowd. He got up to pay the bill, but the owner grabbed himand began to speak to him in an angry stream of words. \"In alchemy, it's calledthe Soul of the World. Maybe God created the desert so that mancould appreciate the date trees, he thought.He decided to concentrate on more practical matters. I need to buy my sheep back, so I have to earn themoney to do so.\" Take to the fields, and somedayyou'll learn that our countryside is the best, and our women the mostbeautiful.\"And he gave the boy his blessing. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 38 / 94talking about, \"It's in the Bible. There, he couldexchange his book for a thicker one, fill his wine bottle, shave, and have ahaircut; he had to prepare himself for his meeting with the girl, and he didn'twant to think about the possibility that some other shepherd, with a largerflock of sheep, had arrived there before him and asked for her hand. The boyprodded them, one by one, with his crook, calling each by name. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. So he began to wander through the city,and found himself at the gates. The other man remarked that tea was alwaysmore delicious when it was served in crystal, because the aroma wasretained. A shepherdalways takes his chances with wolves and with drought, and that's what As long asthe boy knew how to find the best pastures in Andalusia, they would be hisfriends. The boy knew what he was about to describe,though: the mysterious chain that links one thing to another, the same chainthat had caused him to become a shepherd, that had caused his recurringdream, that had brought him to a city near Africa, to find a king, and to berobbed in order to meet a crystal merchant, andThe closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomeshis true reason for being, thought the boy.The caravan moved toward the east. The way the content is organized \"Follow the omens.\"The boy picked up Urim and Thummim, and, once again, had the strangesensation that the old king was nearby. He saw to it that all the sheep enteredthrough the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent theflock from wandering away during the night. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. He read the lives of the various people who had succeeded in doingso: Helv?ius, Elias, Fulcanelli, and Geber. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. All they ever do, really, islook for food and water. Now it was too late tochange anythingthe only thing he had ever learned to do was to buy andsell crystal glassware. Full text of "The Alchemist" An illustration of two cells of a film strip. I began to make somemoney, but I could never bring myself to leave someone in charge of theshop; the crystals are delicate things. He suggested that the boy look around the palace and return intwo hours.\" 'Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something,' said the wise man,handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. The world was huge and inexhaustible; he had only to allow hissheep to set the route for a while, and he would discover other interestingthings. When he speaks in our language, Ican interpret what he has said. Nevertheless, the merchantdecided to delay his lunch for a few minutes until the boy moved on. It seems old and wise.The wind never stopped, and the boy remembered the day he had sat at thefort in Tarifa with this same wind blowing in his face. Other shops were opened that served tea in crystal, but they weren't atthe top of a hill, and they had little business.Eventually, the merchant had to hire two more employees. Since the miner had sacrificed everything to hisdestiny, the old man decided to become involved. You can see the PDF demo, size of the PDF, page numbers, and direct download Free PDF of 'The Alchemist Novel' using the download button. And don't forget the language of omens. Sothere were times when he read them parts of his books that had made animpression on him, or when he would tell them of the loneliness or thehappiness of a shepherd in the fields. The heat lasted until nightfall, and all that time he had to carryhis jacket. A lawyer. Hecouldn't have been wrong.\"I had never heard of alchemists before,\" the boy said. But that's the way it is.\"The boy reminded the old man that he had said something about hiddentreasure. ''He told the boy it was no coincidence that he had met him with Urim andThummim in his hand. There areother things I do, too, but most of the time people don't realize I've donethem.\"The old man related that, the week before, he had been forced to appearbefore a miner, and had taken the form of a stone. \"Let's go and have some lunch,\" said the crystal merchant.He put a sign on the door, and they went to a small caf?nearby. But now, as the sun began to set, he was in a differentcountry, a stranger in a strange land, where he couldn't even speak thelanguage. \"You brought a new feeling into my crystalshop. Taking the jacket out, he began to clean theglasses. Books. That was his work.The gods should not have desires, because they don't have destinies. I learned that many alchemistsrealized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, thePhilosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life.\"But, above all, I learned that these things are all so simple that they couldbe written on the surface of an emerald.\"The Englishman was disappointed. That'swhy I have to live off what my daughters provide me with.\"\"And what if I never get to Egypt?\"\"Then I don't get paid. He had worked hard for a year, andthe omens were that it was time to go.I'm going to go back to doing just what I did before, the boy thought. \"The religion hereforbids it.\"The boy told him then that he needed to get to the Pyramids. He recognized that he was feeling something he had neverexperienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. But the marketplace was empty, and he was far fromhome, so he wept. If hepushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens leftby God along his path.God placed them along my path. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 42 / 94windstorms, and told stories about the desert.At other times, mysterious, hooded men would appear; they were Bedouinswho did surveillance along the caravan route. But he decided to take a chance. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 47 / 94The boy awoke as the sun rose. And yet,none of these people has ever met the old king. It was said that he was morethan two hundred years old, and that he had discovered the Philosopher'sStone and the Elixir of Life. Along the way, he learns to listen to his heart and, more importantly, realizes that his dreams, or his Personal Legend, are not just his but part of the Soul of the Universe. It wasn't exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secretseasily to all his creatures.He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this Enough to buy himself a hundred and twentysheep, a return ticket, and a license to import products from Africa into hisown country. *The boy couldn't believe what he was seeing: the oasis, rather than beingjust a well surrounded by a few palm treesas he had seen once in ageography bookwas much larger than many towns back in Spain. If he were to say anything, the bakerwould spend three days thinking about giving it all up, even though he hadgotten used to the way things were. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the othersbecome angry. He drank a bit from the wine thatremained from his dinner of the night before, and he gathered his jacketcloser to his body. Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought tohimself, and decided to say nothing. 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. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. 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. But let's say that the most important is that you have For five years he hadbeen working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands ofstones looking for an emerald. ISBN -7225-3293-8. That he wanted to travel. But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight,he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the coldof the dawn.We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for thejacket's weight and warmth.The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy. We have to take advantage whenluck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. Itwas more activity than usual for this time of the morning. Butchildren always seem to be able to play with them without frightening them.I don't know why. The infidels had an evil look about them.Besides this, in the rush of his travels he had forgotten a detail, just onedetail, which could keep him from his treasure for a long time: only Arabicwas spoken in this country.The owner of the bar approached him, and the boy pointed to a drink thathad been served at the next table. Like crickets, and like expectations;like lizards and four-leaf clovers.\"That's right,\" said the old man, able to read the boy's thoughts. The boy felt sorry for the Englishman's camel, loaded down as hewas with the cases of books.\"There's no such thing as coincidence,\" said the Englishman, picking up theconversation where it had been interrupted in the warehouse. About; . On the other hand, he saidthat he always appeared to help those who are trying to realize their destiny.He left without saying good-bye to the crystal merchant. He put his headcloth in place and secured it with a ring made of camelskin. Maybe no one here knows what analchemist is! Lots of shepherds passed through, selling their wool.\"It doesn't matter,\" he said to his sheep. He didn't consider mending the holethe stonescould fall through any time they wanted. But he found it much more interesting to observe thecaravan and listen to the wind. Ashe walked past the city's castle, he interrupted his return, and climbed thestone ramp that led to the top of the wall. Now, I can see that it hasn't been too bad. If I'm on themarch, I just concentrate on marching. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense mypossibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived.Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't wantto do so.\"It's good I refrained from saying anything to the baker in Tarifa, thought theboy to himself.They went on smoking the pipe for a while as the sun began to set. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 3 / 94\"How did you learn to read?\" the girl asked at one point.\"Like everybody learns,\" he said. The sheep fidgeted nearby, uneasy with their newowner and excited by so much change. He told himself that he would have to startreading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortablepillows.It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the starsthrough the half-destroyed roof. A burning bush. 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. \"He wants us to leave.\"The boy was relieved. Itwas there that the wise man lived.\"Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the mainroom of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went,people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing softmusic, and there was a table covered with platters of the most deliciousfood in that part of the world. The Alchemist a novel by Paulo Coelho. \"Hunches,\" his mother used to call them. Something brightreflected from his chest with such intensity that the boy was momentarilyblinded. And joining this caravan may havebeen my decision, but where it goes is going to be a mystery to me.Nearby was the Englishman, reading a book. 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. An alchemist.\"The conversation was interrupted by the warehouse boss.\"You're in luck, you two,\" the fat Arab said. He continued to look at the beautiful sword for a bit longer, untilhe summoned the courage to turn around.All around him was the market, with people coming and going, shouting andbuying, and the aroma of strange foods but nowhere could he find hisnew companion. Everywherethere were stalls with items for sale. *At the highest point in Tarifa there is an old fort, built by the Moors. He recalled that when the sun had risen thatmorning, he was on another continent, still a shepherd with sixty sheep, andlooking forward to meeting with a girl. Just by looking at them. In the crowd were women,children, and a number of men with swords at their belts and rifles slung ontheir shoulders. But thistime I'll be smarter, the boy thought, removing them from the pouch so hecould put them in his pocket. Arabs oftenappeared in the city, shopping and chanting their strange prayers severaltimes a day.\"Where are you from?\" the boy asked.\"From many places.\"\"No one can be from many places,\" the boy said. I'm afraid that if mydream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.\"You dream about your sheep and the Pyramids, but you're different fromme, because you want to realize your dreams. One of them, a cobbler whomade his living mending boots, said that he had traveled for almost a yearthrough the desert, but that he got more tired when he had to walk throughthe streets of Tangier buying his leather.\"\"Well, why don't you go to Mecca now?\" asked the boy.\"Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 24 / 94Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther thanany shepherd he knew. I'm trying to find out where the alchemist lives From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. In two years he hadlearned everything about shepherding: he knew how to shear sheep, how tocare for pregnant ewes, and how to protect the sheep from wolves. I thought that everything Iowned would be destroyed.\"The land was ruined, and I had to find some other way to earn a living. The roof had fallen in long ago, and anenormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had oncestood.He decided to spend the night there. But, as time passes, a mysterious forcebegins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize theirdestiny.\"None of what the old man was saying made much sense to the boy. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. The Alchemist Quotes About Wisdom With Page Numbers. Please enter a valid web address. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in theheavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race.Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the momentwe're living right now.\"Two nights later, as he was getting ready to bed down, the boy looked forthe star they followed every night. \"The Koran requires me tofeed a hungry person.\"\"Well then, why did you let me do it?\" the boy asked.\"Because the crystal was dirty. I learned how Always ask anobjective question.\"But, if you can, try to make your own decisions. \"I've seen how the guides readthe signs of the desert, and how the soul of the caravan speaks to the soulof the desert.\"The Englishman said, \"I'd better pay more attention to the caravan.\"\"And I'd better read your books,\" said the boy. The tea seemed less bitter.\"Who are you?\" he heard a voice ask him in Spanish.The boy was relieved. He canceled all hiscommitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and nowhere he was, sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. He was planning, on this visit, to explain to the girl howit was that a simple shepherd knew how to read. The treasure was now nothing but a painful memory, andhe tried to avoid thinking about it.\"I don't know anyone around here who would want to cross the desert justto see the Pyramids,\" said the merchant. Itmade me very depressed. I have been told that beauty is the great seducer ofmen.\"The merchant didn't respond, but that afternoon, after saying his prayersand closing the shop, he invited the boy to sit with him and share hishookah, that strange pipe used by the Arabs.\"What is it you're looking for?\" asked the old merchant.\"I've already told you. But if he speaks in the language of the soul,it is only you who can understand. 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