The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

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"What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It is this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."

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mcdudders86 5 years, 8 months ago
The page automatically takes out the first and last quotation marks, so to have the first quote marked correctly, you need 2 sets of quotation marks before "What's the world's greatest lie?"

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