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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.

Isabel Allende

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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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Humans
Beings
Smiled
Even
Creation
Infinity
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Remembered
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Humility
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Illusion
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Lifetime
Human
Planets
Fraction
Everything
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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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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
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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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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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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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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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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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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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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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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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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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