Which is the most striking line or phrase you found in The Alchemists

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I have read The Alchemists, many times over and fell in love with this book every time. The book is nodoubt filled with many insightful phrases and lines about life. However, when I discuss this with my frieds, I find that different lines struck the thought process af different person. In this process, I was also able to realize some hidden messages in the book that were gone unnoticed during my own readings. My Favourite line is " All they want is food and water" This line is actully said for sheeps, but it seems as if Paulo Coelho is sending a hint towards we humans, who in a very broad sense, just made our lives same as animals. Just to get food water and physical pleasure has become our destiny. Just like getting food and water is the goal of sheeps, we have made our goals to satisfy our regular needs. And just like getting food and water is a very very short term goal with an equally short span of fullfilment, our goals are more or less same; lacking long term plans and having a very short term of feeling of fuifilment. This is purely my viewpoint. I invite all of you to help get more insights hidden in this book.