The link to download The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book in PDF has been shared down below. Always ask anobjective question.\"But, if you can, try to make your own decisions. All things are one.\"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you toachieve it.\"They were both silent for a time, observing the plaza and the townspeople.It was the old man who spoke first.\"Why do you tend a flock of sheep?\"\"Because I like to travel.\"The old man pointed to a baker standing in his shop window at one cornerof the plaza. *The boy awoke before dawn. It's going to test thecaravan's every step to see if it's in time, and, if it is, we will make it to theoasis.\"\"If either of us had joined this caravan based only on personal courage, butwithout understanding that language, this journey would have been muchmore difficult.\"They stood there looking at the moon.\"That's the magic of omens,\" said the boy. Heneeded someone to talk to so as to avoid thinking about the possibility ofwar.\"I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soulcan also understand the language of things. Theywere conversing in Arabic, and the boy was proud of himself for being ableto do so. The Englishman had several suitcases filled with books.There was a babble of noise, and the leader had to repeat himself severaltimes for everyone to understand what he was saying.\"There are a lot of different people here, and each has his own God. One night, acamel driver came to the fire where the Englishman and the boy weresitting. After all, he had all his money. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Idon't like people to do that, because the sheep are afraid of strangers. And he knew that shepherds, likeseamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there wassomeone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.The day was dawning, and the shepherd urged his sheep in the direction ofthe sun. Maybe God created the desert so that mancould appreciate the date trees, he thought.He decided to concentrate on more practical matters. *The Englishman was sitting on a bench in a structure that smelled ofanimals, sweat, and dust; it was part warehouse, part corral. An illustration of an open book. He should respect tradition.The Englishman was disappointed. The Alchemist Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The boy noted that there was a sense of fear in the air,even though no one said anything. About; . The dunes were changed constantlyby the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was achild. Then aman approached.\"Do you know someone here who cures people's illnesses?\" the boy asked.\"Allah cures our illnesses,\" said the man, clearly frightened of the strangers.\"You're looking for witch doctors.\" He spoke some verses from the Koran,and moved on.Another man appeared. As a child in church, he hadalways looked at the image of Saint Santiago Matamoros on his white horse,his sword unsheathed, and figures such as these kneeling at his feet. He told himself that he would have to startreading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortablepillows.It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the starsthrough the half-destroyed roof. 19362 likes. \"What kind of Arab are you?\"\"That's a good luck omen,\" the Englishman said, after the fat Arab had goneout. All they wanted was food and water.Melchizedek watched a small ship that was plowing its way out of the port.He would never again see the boy, just as he had never seen Abraham *The boy couldn't believe what he was seeing: the oasis, rather than beingjust a well surrounded by a few palm treesas he had seen once in ageography bookwas much larger than many towns back in Spain. The boy was tempted to be rude, and move to another bench, buthis father had taught him to be respectful of the elderly. And don't forget the language of omens. The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Just as I hadn't realized that for so many years Ihad been speaking a language without words to my sheep.\"Do you want to go to work for me?\" the merchant asked.\"I can work for the rest of today,\" the boy answered. Everyone, when they areyoung, knows what their destiny is.\"At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like tosee happen to them in their lives. \"If you start out by promising what youdon't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.\"The boy told him that he had already promised to give one-tenth of histreasure to the Gypsy.\"Gypsies are experts at getting people to do that,\" sighed the old man. There, in front of him, where the small starshad been the night before, was an endless row of date palms, stretchingacross the entire desert.\"We've done it!\" said the Englishman, who had also awakened early.But the boy was quiet. There had been a time when he thought that his sheep couldteach him everything he needed to know about the world. \"Why are you telling me all this?\"\"Because you are trying to realize your destiny. Torealize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.". Likeeating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. I have been told that beauty is the great seducer ofmen.\"The merchant didn't respond, but that afternoon, after saying his prayersand closing the shop, he invited the boy to sit with him and share hishookah, that strange pipe used by the Arabs.\"What is it you're looking for?\" asked the old merchant.\"I've already told you. \"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck andcoincidence. He read the lives of the various people who had succeeded in doingso: Helv?ius, Elias, Fulcanelli, and Geber. Two customers came in today while you were working,and that's a good omen.\"People talk a lot about omens, thought the shepherd. The treasure was now nothing but a painful memory, andhe tried to avoid thinking about it.\"I don't know anyone around here who would want to cross the desert justto see the Pyramids,\" said the merchant. But he had thrown it with such force that it broke the stone it fellupon, and there, embedded in the broken stone, was the most beautifulemerald in the world.\"People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being,\" said the oldman, with a certain bitterness. But let's say that the most important is that you have It was the old manwho had asked for a drink of his wine, and had started the conversation.\"Give me my book,\" the boy said. The candy seller had asmile on his face: he was happy, aware of what his life was about, andready to begin a day's work. But, whichever it is, I'm going to chargeyou for the consultation.\"Another trick, the boy thought. He held Urim and Thummim in his hand; becauseof those two stones, he was once again on the way to his treasure.\"I am always nearby, when someone wants to realize their destiny,\" the oldking had told him.What could it cost to go over to the supplier's warehouse and find out if thePyramids were really that far away? So the boy sat on the steps of the shop and took a book fromhis bag.\"I didn't know shepherds knew how to read,\" said a girl's voice behind him.The girl was typical of the region of Andalusia, with flowing black hair, andeyes that vaguely recalled the Moorish conquerors.\"Well, usually I learn more from my sheep than from books,\" he answered.During the two hours that they talked, she told him she was the merchant'sdaughter, and spoke of life in the village, where each day was like all theothers. The boy estimated that, if he worked for six more months, hecould return to Spain and buy sixty sheep, and yet another sixty. I just want to dream aboutMecca. But as he held Urim and Thummim in his hand, theyhad transmitted to him the strength and will of the old king. \"He wants us to leave.\"The boy was relieved. And if the book was irritating, as the old man had said, theboy still had time to change it for another.\"It's a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the worldsay,\" continued the old man. \"I know other girls in other places.\"But in his heart he knew that it did matter. He got up to pay the bill, but the owner grabbed himand began to speak to him in an angry stream of words. Both times.\"The woman was silent for some time. He was planning, on this visit, to explain to the girl howit was that a simple shepherd knew how to read. As he read on, an old man sat down at his side andtried to strike up a conversation.\"What are they doing?\" the old man asked, pointing at the people in theplaza.\"Working,\" the boy answered dryly, making it look as if he wanted toconcentrate on his reading.Actually, he was thinking about shearing his sheep in front of themerchant's daughter, so that she could see that he was someone who wascapable of doing difficult things. If hepushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens leftby God along his path.God placed them along my path. Maybe the church, with thesycamore growing from within, had been haunted. He wasn't asking for help. We're only two hours from Spain.\"\"Sit down, and let me treat you to something,\" said the boy. Then she again took his hands andstudied them carefully.\"I'm not going to charge you anything now,\" she said. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 35 / 94to care for sheep, and I haven't forgotten how that's done. Itwas more activity than usual for this time of the morning. And he hadforgotten to mention that, when you have enough money to buy a flocklarger than the one you had before, you should buy it.The boy picked up his pouch and put it with his other things. He knew nothing aboutthe customs of the strange land he was in.\"I'll just watch him,\" he said to himself. He had worked for an entire year to make a dream cometrue, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important.Maybe because that wasn't really his dream.Who knows maybe it's better to be like the crystal merchant: never go toMecca, and just go through life wanting to do so, he thought, again tryingto convince himself. The boy felt sorry for the Englishman's camel, loaded down as hewas with the cases of books.\"There's no such thing as coincidence,\" said the Englishman, picking up theconversation where it had been interrupted in the warehouse. \"If you want to learn about your owntreasure, you will have to give me one-tenth of your flock.\"\"What about one-tenth of my treasure?\"The old man looked disappointed. \"It's like the camel driver said:'Eat when it's time to eat. In half an hour, he had cleaned all the glasses in the window, and,as he was doing so, two customers had entered the shop and bought somecrystal.When he had completed the cleaning, he asked the man for something toeat. Fromatop its walls, one can catch a glimpse of Africa. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. His eyes filled with tears as he spoke of the Prophet. It was \"yes.\"\"Am I going to find my treasure?\" he asked.He stuck his hand into the pouch, and felt around for one of the stones. It was a pleasant changefrom talking to his sheep. Along the way, he learns to listen to his heart and, more importantly, realizes that his dreams, or his Personal Legend, are not just his but part of the Soul of the Universe. Project Gutenberg. \"Tangier is not like the rest of Africa. And he asked the boy if he, too, were in search ofthe alchemist.\"I'm looking for a treasure,\" said the boy, and he immediately regrettedhaving said it. He had studied Latin,Spanish, and theology. I'm trying to find out where the alchemist lives Or beginner's luck.\"The merchant was silent for a few moments. Every step has to be followedexactly as it was followed by the masters.\"The boy learned that the liquid part of the Master Work was called the Elixirof Life, and that it cured all illnesses; it also kept the alchemist fromgrowing old. The Alchemist Quotes Showing 1-30 of 2,288. The Alchemist Quotes About Wisdom With Page Numbers. The boy approached awoman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.\"Good afternoon, ma'am. . \"I'm doing much better, and soon you'll be able to return to your sheep.Why ask more out of life?\"\"Because we have to respond to omens,\" the boy said, almost withoutmeaning to; then he regretted what he had said, because the merchant hadnever met the king.\"It's called the principle of favorability, beginner's luck. But hewanted to know what the \"mysterious force\" was; the merchant's daughterwould be impressed when he told her about that!\"It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how torealize your destiny. He got up, adjusted his clothing, and picked up hispouch.\"I'll work for you,\" he said.And after another long silence, he added, \"I need money to buy somesheep.\"PART TWOThe boy had been working for the crystal merchant for almost a month, andhe could see that it wasn't exactly the kind of job that would make himhappy. If he ever decided to leave them, they wouldsuffer.The wind began to pick up. Full text of "The Alchemist" Some men were smoking from a gigantic pipethat they passed from one to the other. And move along when it's time to move along.' He remembered the smile of the candy seller,on his first day in Tangier, when he had nothing to eat and nowhere to gothat smile had also been like the old king's smile.It's almost as if he had been here and left his mark, he thought. The miner, with all the angerand frustration of his five fruitless years, picked up the stone and threw itaside. But then he remembered that he wasn't going to have topay anything.\"I didn't need to waste my time just for this,\" he said.\"I told you that your dream was a difficult one. But ever since he had been a child, he had wantedto know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowingGod and learning about man's sins. I don't know how to turn them into reality. An allegorical novel, The Alchemist follows a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. \"People will pass byand bump into it, and pieces will be broken.\"\"Well, when I took my sheep through the fields some of them might havedied if we had come upon a snake. They provided warnings aboutthieves and barbarian tribes. It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that ofthe sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading themthrough the countryside in search of food and water. If he makes a buying mistake, it doesn't affect him much. He has the dream every time he sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows out of the ruins of a church. \"This is an important book, but it's really irritating.\"The boy was shocked. He had fallen asleep in themiddle of the marketplace, and life in the plaza was about to resume.Looking around, he sought his sheep, and then realized that he was in anew world. He knew that a few hours from now, with the sun at itszenith, the heat would be so great that he would not be able to lead hisflock across the fields. Or marry the daughter of a textilemerchant?\"\"Yes, or even search for treasure. There was alsothe merchant's daughter, but she wasn't as important as his flock, becauseshe didn't depend on him. One always had something thatthe other neededas if everything were indeed written by one hand. The boy knew what he was about to describe,though: the mysterious chain that links one thing to another, the same chainthat had caused him to become a shepherd, that had caused his recurringdream, that had brought him to a city near Africa, to find a king, and to berobbed in order to meet a crystal merchant, andThe closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomeshis true reason for being, thought the boy.The caravan moved toward the east. But all he foundwas the heavy book, his jacket, and the two stones the old man had givenhim.As he looked at the stones, he felt relieved for some reason. 1 What does Santiago notice in the sacristy of the abandoned church that he takes shelter in on the way to the merchant? They don't see that the fields are new and the seasonschange. With the girl withthe raven hair, his days would never be the same again.But finally the merchant appeared, and asked the boy to shear four sheep.He paid for the wool and asked the shepherd to come back the followingyear. The silence was the worst aspect of the night, when the meregroan of a camelwhich before had been nothing but the groan of acamelnow frightened everyone, because it might signal a raid.The camel driver, though, seemed not to be very concerned with the threatof war.\"I'm alive,\" he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, withno fires and no moon. He had discovered that thepresence of a certain bird meant that a snake was nearby, and that acertain shrub was a sign that there was water in the area. This is aport, and every port has its thieves.\"The boy trusted his new friend. Today, I understand something I didn't see before:every blessing ignored becomes a curse. He hadalways believed that the sheep were able to understand what he said. If it were, hewould already have heard of it.\"And what do you do in Salem?\" he insisted.\"What do I do in Salem?\" The old man laughed. Andthen I'll have to change my way of life.\"\"Well, isn't that good?\"\"I'm already used to the way things are. It traveled during the morning, haltedwhen the sun was at its strongest, and resumed late in the afternoon. But now, as the sun began to set, he was in a differentcountry, a stranger in a strange land, where he couldn't even speak thelanguage. \"Amongst us, the only ones who travel arethe shepherds.\"\"Well, then I'll be a shepherd!\"His father said no more. But I had to insist on the payment of sixsheep because I helped you to make your decision.\"The boy put the stones in his pouch. The next day, he gave his son a pouch that heldthree ancient Spanish gold coins.\"I found these one day in the fields. What he needed to do wasreview all he had learned over the years, because the alchemist wouldcertainly put him to the test.The young Arab took out a book and began to read. The Alchemist is a novel by Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. The lad wandered through the desert forforty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. Theold man wore a breastplate of heavy gold, covered with precious stones.The boy recalled the brilliance he had noticed on the previous day.He really was a king! All they think about is food and water.Maybe we're all that way, the boy mused. Then he asked that everyone, including his own sentinels, handover their arms to the men appointed by the tribal chieftains.\"Those are the rules of war,\" the leader explained. He had unraveled the truths behindimportant questions, but his studies had taken him to a point beyond whichhe could not seem to go. They called that discoverythe Master Workit was part liquid and part solid.\"Can't you just observe men and omens in order to understand thelanguage?\" the boy asked.\"You have a mania for simplifying everything,\" answered the Englishman,irritated. \"You have helped me.\" Theman continued to prepare his tea, saying nothing. = CONTENTS = Part One Part Two EpiloguePART ONEThe boy's name was Santiago. I wanted them to be a part of yourinheritance. Even meI haven't thought ofother women since I met the merchant's daughter. But now I'm sad andalone. All his life and all his studieswere aimed at finding the one true language of the universe. The shepherd told her of the Andalusian countryside, and related thenews from the other towns where he had stopped. *A card hanging in the doorway announced that several languages werespoken in the shop. \"When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. Melchizedek, the king ofSalem, sat on the wall of the fort that afternoon, and felt the levanterblowing in his face. They workedhard just to have food and water, like the sheep. Parents would rather see their children marry bakersthan shepherds.\"The boy felt a pang in his heart, thinking about the merchant's daughter.There was surely a baker in her town.The old man continued, \"In the long run, what people think about shepherdsand bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.\"The old man leafed through the book, and fell to reading a page he cameto. Urim and Thummim.It made the boy think of the old king, and it startled him to realize how longit had been since he had thought of him. In some places, the ground was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes. The boy was also saddened; his friend was in pursuit of hisdestiny. The most important is to believe only in the one true God. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 18 / 94\"The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace,keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. \"That didn't teach me anything,either.\"The boy went back to contemplating the silence of the desert, and the sandraised by the animals. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 16 / 94levanter was still getting stronger, and he felt its force on his face. I learned how Sometimes it's better to be withthe sheep, who don't say anything. Sometimes, there's just no way tohold back the river. Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought tohimself, and decided to say nothing. At othertimes, at a crucial moment, I make it easier for things to happen. So, he asked if the old man'sblessing was still with him.He took out one of the stones. There areother things I do, too, but most of the time people don't realize I've donethem.\"The old man related that, the week before, he had been forced to appearbefore a miner, and had taken the form of a stone. He knew everything about each member ofhis flock: he knew which ones were lame, which one was to give birth twomonths from now, and which were the laziest. The boypreferred wine.But he didn't need to worry about that right now. Even the guides spoke very little to one another.\"I've crossed these sands many times,\" said one of the camel drivers onenight. The third said that it was a tradition in the Orient to use crystalglasses for tea because it had magical powers.Before long, the news spread, and a great many people began to climb thehill to see the shop that was doing something new in a trade that was soold. Then, taking his sheep, hewalked away. 'As you wanderaround, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.' But the Englishman appeared not to attach any importance toit.\"In a way, so am I,\" he said.\"I don't even know what alchemy is,\" the boy was saying, when thewarehouse boss called to them to come outside. His smile reminded the boy of the old manthe mysterious old king he had met. It was said that he was morethan two hundred years old, and that he had discovered the Philosopher'sStone and the Elixir of Life. His soul must be too primitive tounderstand those things, he thought.He took back his books and packed them away again in their bags. But he hadfound a guide, and didn't want to miss out on an opportunity.\"You have to cross the entire Sahara desert,\" said the young man. Maybe she didn't even remember him. Outside, a hugecaravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and wasscheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.I'm going to find that damned alchemist, the Englishman thought. He had come to the town only to find a woman who couldinterpret his dream. Bakers have homes, while shepherdssleep out in the open. But he would never have thought it more than just a myth, hadnot a friend of hisreturning from an archaeological expedition in thedeserttold him about an Arab that was possessed of exceptional powers.\"He lives at the Al-Fayoum oasis,\" his friend had said. It was the time of day when all of Spain slept duringthe summer. He hadexchanged six sheep for two precious stones that had been taken from agold breastplate. If a guide were to fall ill or die, the camel drivers would draw lotsand appoint a new one. 12 by Ben Jonson. Since the miner had sacrificed everything to hisdestiny, the old man decided to become involved. When thecaravan was blocked by a boulder, it had to go around it; if there was alarge rocky area, they had to make a major detour. Philosopher'Sstone and the Elixir of life to leave.\ '' the boy was proud of himself for being do... 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