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Isabel Allende Inspirational Quotes (176)

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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.
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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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