178 Quotes About Alchemy

  • Author Neal Stephenson
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    The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed to call into question one's own ability to turn lead into gold. ("Enoch in Boston, 1713")

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  • Author Paulo Coelho
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    This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold.That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

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  • Author Paulo Coehlo
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    What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked. “It’s 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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  • Author J.K. Rowling
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    The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher’s Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers. The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal.

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  • Author Laini Taylor
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    What was alchemy? It was metallurgy wrapped in mysticism. The pursuit of the spiritual by way of the material.The great and noble effort to master the elements in order to achieve purity, perfection, and divinity.

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  • Author Warsan Shire
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    I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh,and you cannot help but want me.You think it's cruelhow I break your heart, to write a poem.I think it's alchemy.

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