64105351 Aleph Excerpt by Paulo Coelho

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Alephpaulo coelho

Translated from the Portuguese

by Margaret Jull Costa


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Aleph

I put my arms around her, so that her head is resting on

my shoulder.

I love you, I tell her. I love you because all the lovesin the world are like different rivers flowing into the same

lake, where they meet and are transformed into a single

love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

I love you like a river that creates the right conditions

for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks.

I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and

takes people where they want to go.I love you like a river that understands that it must

learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the

shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same

place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a

constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all

we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the

winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in

the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers

until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle

in order to get where it wants.

I receive your love, and I give you mine. Not the love

of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child,

not the love of God for his creatures, but a love with noname and no explanation, like a river that cannot explain

why it follows a particular course but simply flows onward.

A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return;

it is simply there. I will never be yours, and you will never

be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love

you, I love you.


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Maybe its the afternoon, maybe its the light, but at

that moment, the Universe seems finally to be in perfect

harmony. We stay where we are, feeling not the slightestdesire to go back to the hotel, where Yao will doubtless be

waiting for me.


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t h i s i s a b o r z o i b o o k

p u b l i s h e d b y a l f r e d a . k n o p f

Translation copyright 2011 by Margaret Jull Costa

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by

Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,and in Canada by Random House of

Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.aaknopf.com

Originally published in Brazil as O Aleph by Sextante, Rio de

Janeiro, in 2010. Copyright 2010 by Paulo Coelho.

Map by John Gilkes

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon areregistered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Coelho, Paulo.

[Aleph. English]

Aleph / by Paulo Coelho ; translated by Margaret Jull

Costa.1st American ed.

p. cm.

This is a Borzoi book.

isbn978-0-307-70018-6

I. Costa, Margaret Jull. II. Title.

pq9698.13.o3546a4413 2011

869.3'42dc22 2011021088

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and

incidents either are the product of the authors imagination

or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons,

living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Jacket design by Katya Mezhibovskaya


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