One of them is Siddhartha, and the other is The Alchemist.

When I'm on the set with young actors and sometimes you meet people in life who you feel they are a little confused and they want to be re-centered, there are two books that I always recommend. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns…I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.' - WILL SMITH 'One of my favourite books is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and I just believe that…I can create whatever I want to create. It's a dream come true for me,' to be able to direct and star and bring Coelho's book to the screen.' - LAURENCE FISHBURNE on the upcoming film adaptation of The Alchemist 'I feel like the luckiest man on the planet. ‘The Alchemist is a beautiful book about magic, dreams and the treasures we seek elsewhere and then find on our doorstep.’ - MADONNA

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Now I know that its real object was to keep from my ears the idle tales of the dread curse upon our line that were nightly told and magnified by the simple tenantry as they conversed in hushed accents in the glow of their cottage hearths. At that time, Pierre said that this restriction was imposed upon me because my noble birth placed me above association with such plebeian company. I was an only child and the lack of companionship which this fact entailed upon me was augmented by the strange care exercised by my aged guardian, in excluding me from the society of the peasant children whose abodes were scattered here and there upon the plains that surround the base of the hill. And my mother having died at my birth, my care and education devolved solely upon one remaining servitor, an old and trusted man of considerable intelligence, whose name I remember as Pierre. My father had been killed at the age of thirty-two, a month before I was born, by the fall of a stone somehow dislodged from one of the deserted parapets of the castle. Within these walls and amongst the dark and shadowy forests, the wild ravines and grottos of the hillside below, were spent the first years of my troubled life. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely. It was in one of the vast and gloomy chambers of this remaining tower that I, Antoine, last of the unhappy and accursed Counts de C-, first saw the light of day, ninety long years ago. Synopsis The Alchemist is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988.

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