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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.
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I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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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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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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