The people will enjoy the tea andwant to buy the glasses. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 24 / 94Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther thanany shepherd he knew. What he had to beconcerned about was his treasure, and how he was going to go aboutgetting it. I can't help you if you feel you've gotenough sheep.\"The boy was getting irritated. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 46 / 94\"Go back to watching the caravan,\" he said. The tea seemed less bitter.\"Who are you?\" he heard a voice ask him in Spanish.The boy was relieved. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 21 / 94He took his money from his pouch and showed it to the young man. As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choosebetween thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as anadventurer in quest of his treasure.\"I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure,\" he said to himself. But shehadn't charged him anything.\"In order to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens. In his pouch, he had his jackethe certainly wasn't goingto need it in the desert. \"I'm a shepherd, and Ihave been to many places, but I come from only one placefrom a citynear an ancient castle. It's easy, andyet I've never done it before, he thought.When the stall was assembled, the candy seller offered the boy the firstsweet he had made for the day. 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. Full Book Summary. Andthen I'll have to change my way of life.\"\"Well, isn't that good?\"\"I'm already used to the way things are. And the solid part was called the Philosopher's Stone.\"It's not easy to find the Philosopher's Stone,\" said the Englishman. The ideafrightened him.\"Another dreamer,\" said the ticket seller to his assistant, watching the boywalk away. \"And ask for aglass of wine for me. The boy noted that there was a sense of fear in the air,even though no one said anything. Then he said, \"The Prophetgave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations to satisfy during ourlives. There was nothing tohold him back except himself. He had already imagined the scene manytimes; every time, the girl became fascinated when he explained that thesheep had to be sheared from back to front. \"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. It was a pleasant changefrom talking to his sheep. He had spent enormous amounts of timeat the great libraries of the world, and had purchased all the rarest and mostimportant volumes on alchemy. 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. The caravan would be very lucky to reach theoasis.The animals were exhausted, and the men talked among themselves lessand less. For five years he hadbeen working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands ofstones looking for an emerald. wishing that he had died, and that everythingwould end forever at that moment.The merchant looked anxiously at the boy. Books. He suggested that the boy look around the palace and return intwo hours.\" 'Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something,' said the wise man,handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. He had already seen manypeople come and go, and the desert remained as it was. 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. In two years he hadlearned everything about shepherding: he knew how to shear sheep, how tocare for pregnant ewes, and how to protect the sheep from wolves. He'sdoing it because it's what he wants to do,\" thought the boy. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 28 / 94with shepherds.\"The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal glasses. They have gottenused to my being away, and so have I. \"The oases may notshelter armies or troops.\"To the boy's surprise, the Englishman took a chrome-plated revolver out ofhis bag and gave it to the men who were collecting the arms.\"Why a revolver?\" he asked. He was afraid to look around, because he knew what hewould find. As he took his jacket out of the pouch, thinking to give it tosomeone in the street, the two stones fell to the floor. \"They're only made ofrock crystal, and there are millions of rock crystals in the earth. \"He doesn't have enough money to travel.\"While standing at the ticket window, the boy had remembered his flock, and \"Therewas no way for everybody to know about alchemy. The old woman had said the same thing. And yet,none of these people has ever met the old king. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 7 / 94makes a shepherd's life exciting.\"I have had the same dream twice,\" he said. 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. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense mypossibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived.Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't wantto do so.\"It's good I refrained from saying anything to the baker in Tarifa, thought theboy to himself.They went on smoking the pipe for a while as the sun began to set. He said that for the past fewdays he had been paying attention to how the caravan operated, but that hehadn't learned anything new. In one he had read that, many years ago, afamous Arabian alchemist had visited Europe. Itmade me very depressed. Please enter a valid web address. 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. \"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. Butthis was the present momentthe party the camel driver had mentionedand he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams ofthe future. 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. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he were to tire of the Andalusianfields, he could sell his sheep and go to sea. He hadalways believed that the sheep were able to understand what he said. Itwas there that the wise man lived.\"Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the mainroom of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went,people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing softmusic, and there was a table covered with platters of the most deliciousfood in that part of the world. I have to find a man who knows thatuniversal language. 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. *And now it was only four days before he would be back in that same village.He was excited, and at the same time uneasy: maybe the girl had alreadyforgotten him. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 10 / 94\"What's the world's greatest lie?\" the boy asked, completely surprised.\"It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what'shappening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. Hethought that, with some patience, he'd be able to transform everything intogold. \"But bakers are moreimportant people than shepherds. That's the world'sgreatest lie.\"\"That's never happened to me,\" the boy said. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually theygave up the vanities of the world. Did you see the garden that it took the mastergardener ten years to create? But maybe I'llnever have another chance to get to the Pyramids in Egypt. He had been to the village only once, the year before. He felt that he didn't want to do anything thatmight make him look like the Englishman. Hecouldn't have been wrong.\"I had never heard of alchemists before,\" the boy said. \"You have helped me.\" Theman continued to prepare his tea, saying nothing. The merchants were assembling theirstalls, and the boy helped a candy seller to do his. Then leave with the caravan. *The horizon was tinged with red, and suddenly the sun appeared. I shouldhave repeated it for him. But wetwo have to live with our mistakes.\"That's true enough, the boy thought, ruefully.\"Why did you think we should have the display?\" Santiago is a humble shepherd whose desires are . But he found it much more interesting to observe thecaravan and listen to the wind. If he ever wrote a book, he thought, he wouldpresent one person at a time, so that the reader wouldn't have to worry It had caused him tohave the same dream for a second time, and it was causing him to feelanger toward his faithful companions. He felt uneasy at the man's presence. 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. God hasprepared a path for everyone to follow. The Alchemist is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent,impressed by their elemental force.I've learned things from the sheep, and I've learned things from crystal, hethought. I'm trying to find out where the alchemist lives They might even havebecome friends, but the Englishman closed off the conversation.The boy closed his book. The book was written inSpanish. He owned a jacket, a book thathe could trade for another, and a flock of sheep. This wasn't a strange place; it was anew one.After all, what he had always wanted was just that: to know new places. He was older, and was carrying a small bucket. 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