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Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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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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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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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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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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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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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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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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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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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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