She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing be…

Paulo Coelho
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She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.
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