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Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once. —Paulo Coelho

“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

Paulo Coelho poet, writer

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