The ​Devil and Miss Prym (On the Seventh Day) 11 csillagozás

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A ​community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death and power, and each of them will have to choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil? The remote village of Viscos is the setting for this extraordinary struggle. A stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. In this stunning new novel, Paulo Coelho dramatizes the struggle within every soul between light and darkness, and its relevance to our everyday struggles: to dare to follow our dreams, to have the courage to be different and to master the fear that prevents us… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2000

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HarperCollins, London, 2009
202 oldal · ISBN: 9780007835423 · Fordította: Amanda Hopkinson, Nick Caistor
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HarperCollins, New York (U.S.A.), 2006
206 oldal · ISBN: 9780061154287
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HarperCollins, London (United Kingdom), 2003
202 oldal · ISBN: 9780007132867 · Fordította: Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson

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Népszerű idézetek

ℕnabella>!

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

ℕnabella>!

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

ℕnabella>!

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

ℕnabella>!

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

ℕnabella>!

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

ℕnabella>!

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

ℕnabella>!

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

ℕnabella>!

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

ℕnabella>!

There are two kinds of idiots – those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

ℕnabella>!

'You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.'


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