Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Alchemist. In 2014, he uploaded his personal papers online to create a virtual Paulo Coelho Foundation.

10 posts

Excuse Me Sir; You Dropped Your Pocket

by Jonathan Swift and Paulo Coelho in Figures of Speech Nov 30, 2025 — 4 min read

How do these alliterative and incre-'mental' states of becoming parallel with this signature quote below from Paulo Coelho? Pinning the attribute of identity on Swift's version is aristocratic in its resonance, I prefer Coelho's universal approach. What are your thoughts?

Careful Where You Step; It's a Slippery Slope

by Heraclitus and others in Figures of Speech Nov 7, 2025 — 19 min read

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Fundamentally Existential

by John Keats and others in Figures of Speech Oct 31, 2025 — 9 min read

Deontological Algorithms

by René Descartes and others in Figures of Speech Oct 30, 2025 — 7 min read

Damaged Dreams

by Sappho and others in Figures of Speech Aug 30, 2024 — 8 min read

Heraclitus-Heraclitus

by Leonardo da Vinci and Paulo Coelho in Figures of Speech May 2, 2024 — 4 min read

Effective Affection

by Paulo Coelho in Figures of Speech Aug 24, 2022 — 4 min read

Support a Famous Player Near You

by George Bernard Shaw and Paulo Coelho in Figures of Speech Aug 24, 2022 — 4 min read

Accountability by Proxy!

by Emily Dickinson and others in Figures of Speech Aug 24, 2022 — 4 min read

Intellectual Attenuation

by Plutarch and others in Figures of Speech Oct 4, 2020 — 4 min read

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