# The Alchemist ## Metadata * Author: [Paulo Coelho](https://www.amazon.com/Paulo-Coelho/e/B000AQ3HB8/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) * ASIN: B00U6SFUSS * ISBN: 0062502182 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U6SFUSS * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00U6SFUSS) ## Highlights The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there. — location: [935](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00U6SFUSS&location=935) ^ref-43419 Intuition is a feeling for the laws of history, or rules of life. --- “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.” — location: [1943](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00U6SFUSS&location=1943) ^ref-24353 ---