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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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City of the Kings
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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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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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