Quotes from Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

For I am the first and the last
I am the venerated and the despised
I am the prostitute and the saint
I am the wife and the virgin
I am the mother and the daughter
I am the arms of my mother
I am the barren and my children are many
I am the married woman and the spinster
I am the woman who gives birth and she who never procreated
I am the consolation for the pain of birth
I am the wife and the husband
And it was my man who created me
I am the mother of my father
I am the sister of my husband
And he is my rejected son
Always respect me
For I am the shameful and the magnificent one.
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Hymn to Isis.

At every moment of our lives we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
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...but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.
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The power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly women?
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Sometimes you get no second chance and that it's best to accept the gifts the world offers you.
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From Maria's diary.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself.
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From Maria's diary.

If I'm looking for true love, I first have to get the mediocre love out of my systems.
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From Maria's diary.