He felt uneasy at the man's presence. You can see the PDF demo, size of the PDF, page numbers, and direct download Free PDF of 'The Alchemist Novel' using the download button. 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. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasurebecause I never found mine. Sometimes he would comment tothem on the things he had seen in the villages they passed.But for the past few days he had spoken to them about only one thing: thegirl, the daughter of a merchant who lived in the village they would reach inabout four days. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 24 / 94Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther thanany shepherd he knew. 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. *They were strange books. \"Hewanted your money,\" he said. *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. Ifinally have enough money, and all the time I need. And the names of the people involved werevery difficult to pronounce. \"There's a caravan leaving todayfor Al-Fayoum.\"\"But I'm going to Egypt,\" the boy said.\"Al-Fayoum is in Egypt,\" said the Arab. But if he speaks in the language of the soul,it is only you who can understand. I'm afraid that if mydream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.\"You dream about your sheep and the Pyramids, but you're different fromme, because you want to realize your dreams. When you want something with all your heart, that'swhen you are closest to the Soul of the World. But theonly God I serve is Allah, and in his name I swear that I will do everythingpossible once again to win out over the desert. Ten years at the university, and here I am in a corral.But he had to move on. That's good. The Alchemist Quotes About Wisdom With Page Numbers. \"I dreamed that I was in a fieldwith my sheep, when a child appeared and began to play with the animals. 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. The Alchemist a novel by Paulo Coelho. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, andkings, and he didn't understand any of it. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 45 / 94 *\"Why do they make things so complicated?\" he asked the Englishman onenight. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other peopleshould lead their lives, but none about his or her own.He decided to wait until the sun had sunk a bit lower in the sky beforefollowing his flock back through the fields. Therewere three hundred wells, fifty thousand date trees, and innumerablecolored tents spread among them.\"It looks like The Thousand and One Nights,\" said the Englishman, impatientto meet with the alchemist.They were surrounded by children, curious to look at the animals andpeople that were arriving. He had never even wept in frontof his own sheep. \"They come in search of new things, but when they leave theyare basically the same people they were when they arrived. 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. He wasfeeling sorry for himself, and lamenting the fact that his life could havechanged so suddenly and so drastically.He was so ashamed that he wanted to cry. The caravan would be very lucky to reach theoasis.The animals were exhausted, and the men talked among themselves lessand less. He didn't know the man yet, but his practiced eyewould recognize him when he appeared. Bycoincidenceor maybe it was an omen, the boy thoughthe came to thebar he had entered on his first day there. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because oneperson betrayed me. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Summary & Analysis Themes Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Wheel Teachers and parents! And better still to be alone with one's Then he turned to theboy.\"I am proud of you,\" he said. Some of them were things that he hadalready experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had neverperceived before. I'm used to theway I am.\"The boy didn't know what to say. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 30 / 94at my side, and those in front of me, and the conversations and prayers wewould share. If he were to tire of the Andalusianfields, he could sell his sheep and go to sea. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 33 / 94He waited patiently for the merchant to awaken and open the shop. Good afternoon.\"And he vanished around the corner of the plaza. There were oases throughout the desert, but the tribesmen foughtin the desert, leaving the oases as places of refuge.With some difficulty, the leader of the caravan brought all his peopletogether and gave them his instructions. 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 desert is acapricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.\" The animals balked at such places, and the camel drivers wereforced to dismount and unburden their charges. He had helped him out in a dangeroussituation. The Alchemist is a novel by Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Like. Atnight, as they sat around the fire, the boy related to the driver hisadventures as a shepherd.During one of these conversations, the driver told of his own life.\"I used to live near El Cairum,\" he said. And joining this caravan may havebeen my decision, but where it goes is going to be a mystery to me.Nearby was the Englishman, reading a book. Then she tookboth of his hands in hers, and began quietly to pray.It sounded like a Gypsy prayer. The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Coelho fThe Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition PDF The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition by by Paulo Coelho This The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition book is not really ordinary book, you have it then the world is in your hands. \"I'm herebecause a friend of mine heard of an Arab who\"But the caravan began to move, and it was impossible to hear what theEnglishman was saying. It seemed as ifwhat the old king had called \"beginner's luck\" were no longer functioning. A young couple sat on the bench where hehad talked with the old man, and they kissed.\"That baker\" he said to himself, without completing the thought. 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. Uponreturning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.\" 'But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?' Itwas more activity than usual for this time of the morning. And the solid part was called the Philosopher's Stone.\"It's not easy to find the Philosopher's Stone,\" said the Englishman. He looked likean Arab, which was not unusual in those parts. A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Gold would lose its value.\"It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, whoachieve the Master Work. Before you came, I was thinkingabout how much time I had wasted in the same place, while my friends hadmoved on, and either went bankrupt or did better than they had before. \"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. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around him, the beauty of theflowers, and the taste with which everything had been selected. In his pouch, he had his jackethe certainly wasn't goingto need it in the desert. Full text of "The Alchemist" But an old king sometimes has totake some pride in himself.\" *How strange Africa is, thought the boy.He was sitting in a bar very much like the other bars he had seen along thenarrow streets of Tangier. And don't forget the language of omens. \"I'll work all night, untildawn, and I'll clean every piece of crystal in your shop. The Alchemist Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The priests carried them in a golden breastplate.\"The boy was suddenly happy to be there at the warehouse.\"Maybe this is an omen,\" said the Englishman, half aloud.\"Who told you about omens?\" The boy's interest was increasing by themoment.\"Everything in life is an omen,\" said the Englishman, now closing the journalhe was reading. \"Because you really like to travel.\"\"He knew what I was thinking,\" the boy said to himself. The miner hadabandoned everything to go mining for emeralds. Because life wantsyou to achieve your destiny,\" the old king had said.But the merchant understood what the boy had said. 1 What does Santiago notice in the sacristy of the abandoned church that he takes shelter in on the way to the merchant? His newfriend pushed the owner aside, and pulled the boy outside with him. If I'm on themarch, I just concentrate on marching. \"Follow the omens.\"The boy picked up Urim and Thummim, and, once again, had the strangesensation that the old king was nearby. But she said nothing.\"Then, at the Egyptian pyramids,\"he said the last three words slowly, sothat the old woman would understand\"the child said to me, If you comehere, you will find a hidden treasure.' ''He told the boy it was no coincidence that he had met him with Urim andThummim in his hand. Theysearched everywhere, and found that the oasis was much larger than theycould have imagined; there were hundreds of tents.\"We've wasted almost the entire day,\" said the Englishman, sitting downwith the boy near one of the wells.\"Maybe we'd better ask someone,\" the boy suggested.The Englishman didn't want to tell others about his reasons for being at theoasis, and couldn't make up his mind. The way the content is organized The boyand the Englishman had bought camels, and climbed uncertainly onto theirbacks. Then when he spoke about me he would say that Iam Melchizedek, the king of Salem.He looked to the skies, feeling a bit abashed, and said, \"I know it's thevanity of vanities, as you said, my Lord. It hurt him a bit to think about it, but he had never seen one like itbefore. If I don't find it, I can always go home. \"Even if you cleaned my crystal for an entire yeareven if you earned a good commission selling every piece, you would stillhave to borrow money to get to Egypt. He wassure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her,every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it'sbecause people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their livesevery day that the sun rises.I left my father, my mother, and the town castle behind. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. A lawyer. Published 1992. When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, whilethey were erecting the stall, one of them had spoken Arabic and the otherSpanish.And they had understood each other perfectly well.There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought.I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening withpeople. Myneighbors feared they would lose all their olive trees in the flood, and mywife was afraid that we would lose our children. A huge wooden cross. Torealize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. Some of them were richpilgrims, traveling in caravans with servants and camels, but most of thepeople making the pilgrimage were poorer than I.\"All who went there were happy at having done so. 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 caravan and the desert speak the same language, and it's forthat reason that the desert allows the crossing. The othersare to pray five times a day, fast during Ramadan, and be charitable to thepoor.\"He stopped there. Eventhough the sheep didn't teach me to speak Arabic.But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that therewas a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boyhad used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at theshop. They were on the right track.Finally, a young woman approached who was not dressed in black. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. Maybe it was his treasure tohave wound up in that strange land, met up with a thief, and doubled thesize of his flock without spending a cent.He was proud of himself. I just want to dream aboutMecca. The boy's verypresence in the shop was an omen, and, as time passed and money waspouring into the cash drawer, he had no regrets about having hired the boy.The boy was being paid more money than he deserved, because themerchant, thinking that sales wouldn't amount to much, had offered the boya high commission rate. When the people saw thatstar shining in the morning sky, they knew they were on the right coursetoward water, palm trees, shelter, and other people. But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight,he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the coldof the dawn.We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for thejacket's weight and warmth.The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy. He was sure the girl would never understand. \"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. 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. \"Let's go and have some lunch,\" said the crystal merchant.He put a sign on the door, and they went to a small caf?nearby. The boyprodded them, one by one, with his crook, calling each by name. In the desert, disobedience means death.\"There was a murmur from the crowd. He had seen kingsand beggars walking the desert sands. The boy wasstrong, and wanted to retaliate, but he was in a foreign country. He took Urim and Thummim fromhis pocket, and began playing with them.The stranger shouted, \"Urim and Thummim!\"In a flash the boy put them back in his pocket.\"They're not for sale,\" he said.\"They're not worth much,\" the Englishman answered. Take to the fields, and somedayyou'll learn that our countryside is the best, and our women the mostbeautiful.\"And he gave the boy his blessing. He could always become a crystal salesman again. \"Maybe no one herehas, either.\"The Englishman's eyes lit up. Or beginner's luck.\"The merchant was silent for a few moments. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. He quickly pulled his hands away.\"I didn't come here to have you read my palm,\" he said, already regrettinghaving come. 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? And, when someone was in such pursuit, the entire universe madean effort to help him succeedthat's what the old king had said. He didn't need to seek out the oldwoman for this! 1 of 25. Only in that way would he be able to read the omens. He didn't consider mending the holethe stonescould fall through any time they wanted. But I want each and everyone of you to swear by the God you believe in that you will follow my ordersno matter what. And the leader posted armed sentinels at the fringes of the group.The Englishman was unable to sleep one night. Africa was only a few hoursfrom Tarifa; one had only to cross the narrow straits by boat. = CONTENTS = Part One Part Two EpiloguePART ONEThe boy's name was Santiago. \"I can interpret it, butthe interpretation is very difficult. 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. 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. I thought that everything Iowned would be destroyed.\"The land was ruined, and I had to find some other way to earn a living. pdf | Brahim EL FEZZAZI - Academia.edu Download Free PDF The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 5 / 94afford to travel,\" his father said. He had done this for years, and knew the schedule of everyonewho passed. \"This candy merchant isn't makingcandy so that later he can travel or marry a shopkeeper's daughter. We're only two hours from Spain.\"\"Sit down, and let me treat you to something,\" said the boy. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 14 / 94\"Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by thesame currents,\" said the old man. He owned a jacket, a book thathe could trade for another, and a flock of sheep. Yes, the old man hadknown what he was talking about: during the time the boy had spent in the He was older, and was carrying a small bucket. The same book that taught me about Urimand Thummim. As he was leaving, he saw, in the corner of the room, his oldshepherd's pouch. I began to make somemoney, but I could never bring myself to leave someone in charge of theshop; the crystals are delicate things. 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. Once again he saw that, in that strange land, he was applying thesame lessons he had learned with his sheep.\"All things are one,\" the old man had said. \"It's called the principle offavorability. He was no longer a shepherd, and he had nothing, not even themoney to return and start everything over.All this happened between sunrise and sunset, the boy thought. The dunes were changed constantlyby the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was achild. The Alchemist Summary Next Prologue In the Prologue, the alchemist reads a story about Narcissus a youth so fascinated by his own beautiful reflection that he falls into a lake and drowns. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting ona star that indicated the location of the oasis. *A card hanging in the doorway announced that several languages werespoken in the shop. He was planning, on this visit, to explain to the girl howit was that a simple shepherd knew how to read. He had come to the town only to find a woman who couldinterpret his dream. I havenever heard of them, but, if it was a child who showed them to you, they I can pay you to serve as myguide.\"\"Do you have any idea how to get there?\" the newcomer asked.The boy noticed that the owner of the bar stood nearby, listening attentivelyto their conversation. After two hours, he returned to theroom where the wise man was.\" 'Well,' asked the wise man, 'did you see the Persian tapestries that arehanging in my dining hall? Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought tohimself, and decided to say nothing. 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