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Elijah again raised his arms to the heavens.

“My people fell away from the Lord because of a woman's beauty. Phoenicia may be destroyed because a priest thinks that writing is a threat to the gods. Why does He who made the world prefer to use tragedy to write the book of fate?”

Elijah's cries echoed through the valley to return to his ears.

“Thou knowest not whereof thou speakest,” the angel replied. “There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything hath its reason for being: thou needest only distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.”

“What is temporary?” asked Elijah.

“The unavoidable.”

“And what is lasting?”

“The lessons of the unavoidable.”

Saying this, the angel disappeared.

(From The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho,
Translated by Clifford E. Landers,
HarperTorch, June 2004, page 137)

Untuk Bali dan bocah kecil yang lahir 10 Januari 1999

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