The Alchemist
A philosophical novel by Paulo Coelho about a young shepherd's journey to find treasure.
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"I read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I was in a like psychedelic fugue state for the entirety of the time that I was on there. It's a bad idea. A piece of advice to anyone going on reality TV: do not read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho before you ..."
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"The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. That was like the first book I read. I went so long without reading a book. My mom gave me this book. She said, 'You..."
"Honestly, this is a place that I think you should go to... It is a 50 course, seven and a half hour dining experience through three or four different dining rooms. It is the most absurd restaurant experience I've ever seen in my entire life. Not j..."
More from Joshua Weissman →"I love the book Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist. The kernel of truth in that book — the main lesson — is you need to find your personal legend and you need to follow it with all your heart, and when you do, the world will conspire for your success."
More from Mark McLaughlin →"Manacled is actually been turned into a proper book. It's been turned into a book called Alchemist, which came out recently, like a few months ago, and sold like hundreds of thousands of copies in its first week."
More from Ali Abdaal →"The Alchemist. I have been on page 12 for like a year and a half. Sit down on a plane and just read the alchemist at the top of the page and I'm out."
More from Arsenio Hall →"I'm very excited by Tony Wyss-Coray's work from Stanford. And he had a company that's now sold, Alchemist, which talked about factors in young blood and in exercised blood that can rejuvenate the brain and body."
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