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   Michael Dukelsky:   
      
   MD> What is the benefit of reading English translations from   
   MD> other languages and not books written in English?   
      
   I sometimes read translations from my native Russian that I   
   may better translate myself (double meaning intended).   
      
   MD> I'd understand it if the book were really a good   
   MD> literature. But from my point of view Althemist is not,   
   MD> it is more like graphomania.   
      
   One aphorism from The Alchemist, "Once you make a decision,   
   the universe conspires to make it happen", is often   
   attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but I did not find it in   
   any of his essays.  If Coelho wrote it himself, he is not so   
   bad at all at all!   
      
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