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. The boy promisedhimself that, when he returned from Egypt, he would buy that sword.\"Ask the owner of that stall how much the sword costs,\" he said to hisfriend. He looked around at the empty plaza again,feeling less desperate than before. 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. \"When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. As long as you appreciate this is poorly written feel-good tripe out of a depressed author's mind, where character development is too much for him and plot-wise everything must turn out well in the end, then read on: you're good. He knew that in thecaravan there was a man to whom he was to teach some of his secrets. At the beginning of the novel, the protagonist Santiago is launched on a quest for his treasurehis Personal Legendthrough his encounter . Sometimes it's better to be withthe sheep, who don't say anything. He didn't need to seek out the oldwoman for this! Theboy felt ill and terribly alone. Thatmorning he had done some calculating: if he continued to work every dayas he had been, he would need a whole year to be able to buy some sheep.\"I'd like to build a display case for the crystal,\" the boy said to themerchant. 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. The boythought back to that conversation with his father, and felt happy; he hadalready seen many castles and met many women (but none the equal of theone who awaited him several days hence). One afternoon, on a visit to his family,he had summoned up the courage to tell his father that he didn't want tobecome a priest. That waswhat made traveling appeal to himhe always made new friends, and hedidn't need to spend all of his time with them. Theboy repeated his question.\"Why do you want to find that sort of person?\" the Arab asked.\"Because my friend here has traveled for many months in order to meet withhim,\" the boy said.\"If such a man is here at the oasis, he must be the very powerful one,\" saidthe old man after thinking for a few moments. An alchemist would probably live ina manner that was different from that of the rest of the people at the oasis,and it was likely that in his tent an oven was continuously burning. His parents had wanted him to become apriest, and thereby a source of pride for a simple farm family. \"The religion hereforbids it.\"The boy told him then that he needed to get to the Pyramids. He had helped him out in a dangeroussituation. And theodor of the animals became a bit more tolerable.A young Arab, also loaded down with baggage, entered, and greeted theEnglishman.\"Where are you bound?\" asked the young Arab.\"I'm going into the desert,\" the man answered, turning back to his reading.He didn't want any conversation at this point. He felt uneasy at the man's presence. 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. \"The shepherd said nothing. 'As you wanderaround, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.' The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. I could die happily, and that made me feel good.\"One day, the earth began to tremble, and the Nile overflowed its banks. It was only theEnglishman who was unaware of all this; he was, for the most part,immersed in reading his books.The boy, too, had his book, and he had tried to read it during the first fewdays of the journey. Three days from now, he wouldbe with the merchant's daughter.He started to read the book he had bought. 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. I've already imagined a thousand times crossing the desert, arrivingat the Plaza of the Sacred Stone, the seven times I walk around it beforeallowing myself to touch it. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognizethat it is working for us. Thedays had always been silent, but now, even the nightswhen the travelerswere accustomed to talking around the fireshad also become quiet. And, when someone was in such pursuit, the entire universe madean effort to help him succeedthat's what the old king had said. ISBN 0-7225-3293-8. 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. They were on the right track.Finally, a young woman approached who was not dressed in black. \"I have the money I need to buy my sheep.And you have the money you need to go to Mecca.\"The old man said nothing.\"Will you give me your blessing?\" asked the boy. Project Gutenberg. They were men who had dedicated their entire lives to thepurification of metals in their laboratories; they believed that, if a metal wereheated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, andwhat was left would be the Soul of the World. As achild, the boy had always been frightened to death that he would becaptured by Gypsies, and this childhood fear returned when the old womantook his hands in hers.But she has the Sacred Heart of Jesus there, he thought, trying to reassurehimself. He had seen kingsand beggars walking the desert sands. The men of the oasis wanted to know if they hadseen any fighting, and the women competed with one another for access tothe cloth and precious stones brought by the merchants. Books. 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. A shepherdalways takes his chances with wolves and with drought, and that's what He had surprised himself with the thought.Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world. The Alchemist Quotes About Wisdom With Page Numbers. The boy, accustomed to recognizing omens, spoke to the merchant.\"Let's sell tea to the people who climb the hill.\"\"Lots of places sell tea around here,\" the merchant said.\"But we could sell tea in crystal glasses. The boypreferred wine.But he didn't need to worry about that right now. Perhaps to a baker, or to another shepherd who could read andcould tell her exciting storiesafter all, he probably wasn't the only one. The dunes were changed constantlyby the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was achild. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. From where hestood, he saw for the first time that the old merchant's hair was very muchlike the hair of the old king. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 3 / 94\"How did you learn to read?\" the girl asked at one point.\"Like everybody learns,\" he said. About; . Yet the boy felt that there wasanother way to regard his situation: he was actually two hours closer to histreasure the fact that the two hours had stretched into an entire yeardidn't matter.I know why I want to get back to my flock, he thought. \"The Koran requires me tofeed a hungry person.\"\"Well then, why did you let me do it?\" the boy asked.\"Because the crystal was dirty. There was afull moon, and the boy told the Englishman the story of his life.The Englishman was fascinated with the part about the progress achieved atthe crystal shop after the boy began working there.\"That's the principle that governs all things,\" he said. He had neverthought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what heshould do.\"Don't be impatient,\" he repeated to himself. One year, when the crop wasthe best ever, we all went to Mecca, and I satisfied the only unmetobligation in my life. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 8 / 94exist. He said that for the past fewdays he had been paying attention to how the caravan operated, but that hehadn't learned anything new. It seemed he had made the long journeyfor nothing. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. The oldman was probably a Gypsy, too.But before the boy could say anything, the old man leaned over, picked upa stick, and began to write in the sand of the plaza. There was alsothe merchant's daughter, but she wasn't as important as his flock, becauseshe didn't depend on him. He recognized that he was feeling something he had neverexperienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. The animals balked at such places, and the camel drivers wereforced to dismount and unburden their charges. \"His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. As long asthe boy knew how to find the best pastures in Andalusia, they would be hisfriends. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. Published 1992. The only thing he had noticed was that talk ofwar was becoming more and more frequent. 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. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. The room'sfurnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,and two chairs.The woman sat down, and told him to be seated as well. He should respect tradition.The Englishman was disappointed. In just a few hours he had seen menwalking hand in hand, women with their faces covered, and priests thatclimbed to the tops of towers and chantedas everyone about him went totheir knees and placed their foreheads on the ground.\"A practice of infidels,\" he said to himself. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 39 / 94There were almost two hundred people gathered there, and four hundredanimalscamels, horses, mules, and fowl. 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. He began toimport enormous quantities of tea, along with his crystal, and his shop wassought out by men and women with a thirst for things new.And, in that way, the months passed. He remembered thesword. The wise man conversed with everyone, andthe boy had to wait for two hours before it was his turn to be given theman's attention.\"The wise man listened attentively to the boy's explanation of why he hadcome, but told him that he didn't have time just then to explain the secret ofhappiness. If hepushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens leftby God along his path.God placed them along my path. \"I hold thepower of life and death for every person I take with me. Themerchant was the proprietor of a dry goods shop, and he always demandedthat the sheep be sheared in his presence, so that he would not becheated. \"The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage. And the solid part was called the Philosopher's Stone.\"It's not easy to find the Philosopher's Stone,\" said the Englishman. Read key facts, the plot summary, and important quotes . When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strongcurrent that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he firstmade the decision.When I decided to seek out my treasure, I never imagined that I'd wind upworking in a crystal shop, he thought. If he makes a buying mistake, it doesn't affect him much. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 9 / 94about memorizing a lot of names.When he was finally able to concentrate on what he was reading, he likedthe book better; the burial was on a snowy day, and he welcomed thefeeling of being cold. It seemed as ifwhat the old king had called \"beginner's luck\" were no longer functioning. \"Imagine if everyone went around transforming leadinto gold. The boy explained that it wasn't important, since that sheep was themost intelligent of the flock, and produced the most wool.\"Where is the treasure?\" he asked.\"It's in Egypt, near the Pyramids.\"The boy was startled. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 31 / 94The merchant put some new coals in the hookah, and inhaled deeply.\"I've had this shop for thirty years. By the time he had hadenough of the sea, he would already have known other cities, other women,and other chances to be happy. Idon't like people to do that, because the sheep are afraid of strangers. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 36 / 94an alchemist. And you are at the pointwhere you're about to give it all up.\"\"And that's when you always appear on the scene?\"\"Not always in this way, but I always appear in one form or another.Sometimes I appear in the form of a solution, or a good idea. He knew that wind: people called it the levanter,because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at the eastern end ofthe Mediterranean.The levanter increased in intensity. The boy offered his bottle, hoping that the old man wouldleave him alone.But the old man wanted to talk, and he asked the boy what book he wasreading. He could see that the old man wanted to knowmore about his life.\"Well, then, we've got a problem. But he was ableto understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning ofthings. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. All the joy he had seen thatmorning had suddenly disappeared.\"I can give you the money you need to get back to your country, my son,\"said the crystal merchant.The boy said nothing. That's the world'sgreatest lie.\"\"That's never happened to me,\" the boy said. I can't help you if you feel you've gotenough sheep.\"The boy was getting irritated. The boy approached awoman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.\"Good afternoon, ma'am. \"We could place it outside, and attract those people who pass atthe bottom of the hill.\"\"I've never had one before,\" the merchant answered. He drank a bit from the wine thatremained from his dinner of the night before, and he gathered his jacketcloser to his body. 2 of 25. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 25 / 94He was learning a lot of new things. Anyway, the boy had becomehappy in his work, and thought all the time about the day when he woulddisembark at Tarifa as a winner.\"You must always know what it is that you want,\" the old king had said. \"In school.\"\"Well, if you know how to read, why are you just a shepherd?\"The boy mumbled an answer that allowed him to avoid responding to herquestion. Full text of "The Alchemist" The link to download The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book in PDF has been shared down below. Peoplewere shouting at the new arrivals, dust obscured the desert sun, and thechildren of the oasis were bursting with excitement at the arrival of thestrangers. 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 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! "I'm like everyone else-I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.". No hope, no adventure, no oldkings or destinies, no treasure, and no Pyramids. Maybe she didn't even remember him. 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. He almostbegan to tell about his treasure, but decided not to do so. If he ever decided to leave them, they wouldsuffer.The wind began to pick up. Each was swearing quietly to his orher own God. He went downthe stairs and found the merchant waiting on a foreign couple, while twoother customers walked about the shop, drinking tea from crystal glasses. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 28 / 94with shepherds.\"The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal glasses. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. He had done this for years, and knew the schedule of everyonewho passed. 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. A burning bush. *The Englishman was sitting on a bench in a structure that smelled ofanimals, sweat, and dust; it was part warehouse, part corral. \"The caravan and the desert speak the same language, and it's forthat reason that the desert allows the crossing. I need to know whether you have enough.\"The boy thought it a strange question. Then she again took his hands andstudied them carefully.\"I'm not going to charge you anything now,\" she said. Then leave with the caravan. But thistime I'll be smarter, the boy thought, removing them from the pouch so hecould put them in his pocket. He decided to stay right there and await his return.As he waited, a priest climbed to the top of a nearby tower and began hischant; everyone in the market fell to their knees, touched their foreheads tothe ground, and took up the chant. Novel by Brazilian author paulo Coelho - the Alchemist Page 36 / 94an Alchemist and frequent... 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