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My biography, entitled The Wizard, has just been released in Brazil and given that I opened all my files to my biographer, some people have been horrified with my past.
So here is my question to you: Should you know all about me?
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Enjoying your book, between sleeping, after nightshifts, cooking I am almost in the middle. Thank you for sharing your life with us through this book, I can tell you honestly it does not matter, because everyone of us at least me too have things in the past,like rebelling towards our parents, drugs, arrests, it just proves that we are human, we always change, we always evolve.
I don’t know why people are so shocked to discover when celebrities come out with secret and things from their past, after all we not saints.
Thank you and God Bless You Mr.Coelho I am glad you let this book be written and I would enjoy reading more of your poems:)
Love always
Yes, I’d like to know more about you. Because we’re human and no matter whatever we lived, it’s always inspiring to read the whole story..
Many regards,
Id like to read your biography, I don’t think it is horrifying to know a persons past,especially one who has grown from it and inspired many others. I think it is a gift to us, your fans, to get to know you better and understand where all that inspiration comes from … but it does make me wonder if by living a “politicly correct” life, will I grow? will I learn? … sometimes I think it’s better to go wrong and make all kinds of bad choices in order to become a better person.
Couldnt agree more on the last part “sometimes I think it’s better to go wrong and make all kinds of bad choices in order to become a better person”.
Unfortunately people dont see that better person when you reveal all the wrongs you have done. Its just you yourself who knows about the good transformation in you. But is that enough?
Mr.Coehlo,
Your book have me crying,I had to stop after reading your letter to your father on father’s day today. That book only brings me closer to knowing you. Thank you.
I want to read your biography, I haven’t yet, I have so much respect for your as an auhor and human being, that I don’t think that to know about youyr drug abuse wold affect any of it, quite the opposite, as you have a full experience about life, about its failures, its temptantions..and you have chosen another path
It is v inspiring for all of us actually! and yet I read somewhere in a book, that it is for sure admirable a soul that never does mistake, but of course it is double admirable a soul thaht has done mistakes and decides to redeem and change!
How do you feel about it Mr.Coelho?
I have your biography but it is callec “Warrior’s Life” I wonder if it is the same one. It is authorized so I do assume it is the same. I haven’t read it yet because I am just finishing on “Confessions of a Pilgrim” and in it you reveal a lot.
Let’s see, would I be willing in your situation to reveal all? No, I don’t think so, you have every right to keep things you don’t want to talk about to yourself or only share it with few.
As your fan, I would say I want to know all Mr.Coelho!!!!!!
I was just reading about your drug use, and I can tell you as a former cocaine, heroine user I can agree with you that we are not protecting our kids, that anything that is forbidden sounds tempting to young people, we need to find a way to really keep them off that.
Thank you for being you,
Love always
I am reading your biography now, and while I still have a ways to go I am truly grateful that you let this be written.
To tell you the truth I admire you even more now than I did before knowing much about you. I have read all of your books (in either Estonian or English) and you have been my favorite author ever since I discovered a book of your’s in a tiny library in a town called Kilingi-Nomme, in Estonia.
Your biograhy shows that you aren’t this saint that writes books. Quite the opposite, your life experience and now all of these books makes you that much more admirable in my eyes. I guess many people don’t really want a face to the author writing those books, just the content in the book and then they can shape it for themselves any way they want. But I was at a point where I was ready to know more about you.
hi paulo,
no i do not want to know everything about you what brand of toothpaste do you use, what car you drive, what clothes you wear, which restaurants u eat. all this and more hardly matters and does not make a difference to my life. but certain episodes/experiences in your journey which brought you closer to the goal when shared help me in my quest. that’s what your books are all about. they are nothing but a glimpse into your soul. they are you.
i am not looking forward to ur biography. however there comes a point in everyones life when they donot want to hide anything. they are ready to share their innermost secrets cos their heart is free. that is a precious happening. maybe thats happening to u.
No Paulo, it is not right question? There is nothing in knowing about you until i know “who am i.”
But I love whatever you express and share from the core of your heart. That’s enough pal!
Il me semble qu’on a pas besoin de tout connaitre sur une personne. La majorité des gens ne font confiance qu’aux personnes dont ils connaissent le nom, le lieu de résidance, la profession…Je me permets de vous dire que le sourire de certaines paersonnes que j’ai croisé par hasard dans le train ou la rue, m’a illuminé le chemin mieux que certaines que soit disant -je connais toutes les infos de base sur eux”. Pour le passé d’une personne, il n’a nulle importance pour moi non plus ce que les gens disent. Je juge la personne à partir du jour ou mon àme a croisé la sienne et mème si elle comet des erreurs, je purifie mon àme en la pardonnant.
Cher Paulo, vous étes l’un de mes auteurs préférés et mon amour est si sincère pour vous et au delà d’emprisonner ce sentiment pur et loyal dans la prison des préjugés…
ammiro la tua scelta di aver parlato del tuo passato…chi ha scelto di essere deve mantenere coerenza con il proprio modo di pensare.non potrei crederti ,non potrei credere ai tuoi scritti,il filo sottile che mi unisce a te come lettore, e’trovarmi di fronte una persona che pur sbagliando ha saputo riconoscere la sua vera luce,se devo porre fiducia voglio trovarmi dinanzi a una persona che ha vissuto la sua vita e non quella degli altri.penso sia meglio una dura verita’ piuttosto che un eterna bugia….con affetto eleonora.SII PAULO.SUERTE…..
NO, I READ YOUR BIOGRAFIC AND I DON´T KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOUR LIFE IS MANY RICH AND CHANGE IN ONE SECOND PERHAPS YOU CAN WRITE OTHER SECOND BIOGRAFIC WITH ALL YOU LIVE AND GOING TO LIVE.
BY THE WAY I LIKE THE BIOGRAFIC OF FERNANDO MORAIS, I LAUGTH, I CRY AND EVERYTHING. YOUR LIFE IS DIGNIFIED TO MAKE A FILM AND I WAIT THAT IT WAS POSIBLE.
KISSES TO YOU PERHAPS THE PEOPLE LOST THE PREJUDICE AND SEE WITH AN AMPLE MIND.
No one will ever know everything about us, there is luckily a little store in our heart that only lets out what we want to let out. I have only just started reading P.Cohelo’s books. I definitly read about “him” in all the books I have read so far, i read between the lines, and try to catch the meaning of the emotion he is trying to express, which i sometimes feel is more pronounced in his native language. His logic is provocative, and i think he still has lots of questions,more than answers.
If we truly love and respect ourselves, should it matter if anyone knows something about us that they do not like or agree with?
Yes – you need to know my essence, and if you are a good, true freind, or lover, that shopld not be too-difficult to do, or see.
There are differing sides to our essential character too, all of these to be known soon enough…
uhm..I do see some potential problems in sharing everything about you with people you don’t know. Readers can read your biography, something else on line etc.. and be horrified because they’re reading a fact about you. But do we really know you? Were we there 5;10;20;30 years ago? We’re not connected emotionally on a personal, intimate level and in this way judging is waaaay to easy. We’re just there, reading. We can’t ask you questions, we can’t see your emotions, we’re not interacting, we’re “passive” in our reader role. I haven’t read your biography, but I wonder…let’s take an horrified reader, let’s put him/her in a livingroom with Paulo Coelho and a glass of wine maybe, and let’s chat, let’s talk about things for real, let’s add emotions to those facts. Would be this reader still so horrified?
That was a surprisng book, really entertaining. I woudnt wanna know everytng about someone i admire so much as bad an cowardly this might sound i woudnt wanna discover some dssapoiting detail, but if it came down to it, what a heck.
Exatamente “todos” … não é necessário, mas essencialmente a pessoa que não é só o escritor, sim. A questão é também … deve conhecer o mundo, “tudo” de todos os outros? uns aos outros?, seria suficiente com os factos de que “é” no momento .. não?. Beatriz.
el tiempo, siempre trae con siguo todo lo que debemos saber,.
en sus libros ,estoy segura que siempre plazma una parte de usted,
es un artista y su medio de expresion es la escritura es el ,medio que encontro para identificarse en el mundo,
se que ahorillas del rio piedra se sento y lloro como el agua del rio que fluye,brida tubo que subir a la quinta montaña en medio del zahir y como el guerrero de la luz en 11 minutos veronica desidio morir, y entre el demonio y la señorita prim, el peregrino de compostela en las walquirias vencio y se quedo solo………..esto es todo lo que me ineresa saber de usted sus vivencias sus deseos mas inconcientes expresados a traves de personajes de librosssssssssss……….
Not all, again, but people who feels you as a friend… a friendly soul to humanity.. shouldn’t be ‘horrorized’ about your journey.. because it is part of your learning experience in life. The result.. is you and that is what we feel close to.. as much a too feel you as a friend. Real friends.. don’t jugde all actions, instead they just embrace and help each other.
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