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Paulo Coelho relies on the element of surprise in everything he writes and narrates so that none of his readers can anticipate, no matter how deep or immersed they are, what Paulo might say, how he moves his characters, who they are, or what time period or setting their story takes place in. And while we might expect to find a masterpiece of love in his writings, we find that Paulo chooses dozens of small stories and scenes from a reality he has lived or heard about, from different civilizations and their folklore and myths, to present them in a few concise, expressive lines from which we can extract wisdom that summarizes a volume and a proverb that summarizes an era. Paulo Coelho has now become well known to us, and that is enough.