On the network, you can often find aphorism behind the authorship of the famous Brazilian writer. We checked whether he wrote something like that.
The statement completely looks like this: “Money does not bring happiness, but you can buy a yacht with whores on them. And I have never seen someone sad on a yacht with whores. "
The phrase is active It spreads In the form of popular demotivators in social networks and mentioned in separate publications (for example, on "Picabu"). The famous blogger Ilya Varlamov quoted her in X And on Facebook, in both cases, causing a large number of reposts.
Paulo Coelho - the world -famous Brazilian writer, whose books are today sold total circulation More than 300 million copies, 150 million of which falls on its most famous novel Alchemik. For decades, a lot of life -affirming quotes of Coelho has been diverging on the network.
“Verified” did not find the statements reminiscent of this phrase, neither in Russian translations of the works of Paulo Coelho, nor in his accounts in social networks (Instagram, X, Facebook), not on the official sitenor in blog writer. The quote is also absent in the publications of authoritative media in both Russian and Portuguese or English.
If you trace the history of the spread of this quote in Russian, you can see that in the earliest Examples (Spring 2014) There is no name Coelho. This is a translation of the Spanish -speaking statement, the screenshot of which is given in one of the publications.
Indeed, in the Spanish -language segment of the network Aphorism (then without mentioning the name of the Brazilian writer) Started spread In the winter of 2014. The oldest publication, found "verified", dates from January 6 and belongs user X @srefectodoppler. This tweet became viral (543 retweets).
However, the native language of Coelho is Portuguese, and in this language a quote Beginning Dispersed only two years later. However, in Brazil this statement and later did not attribute to the local writer - its author, among others called Even Charlie Chaplin (although there is nothing like that in authoritative sources about his life either). Why, outside Brazil, the phrase was attributed to Coelho is not known for certain. Perhaps the quote echoed with the words “who has money has money, he is never really alone” from the novel by Coelho “Alchemist"Or with widely cited replica The writer himself from an interview with 2005: “Of course, having money is just great, because you can do what you consider important for yourself. I have always been a rich man because money is not related to happiness. ”
Thus, a quote about money and dissolving women has nothing to do with the life and work of Paulo Coelho. She gained the first wide popularity in the 2010s in Spanish.
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