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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
World
Suffer
Pure
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Happiness
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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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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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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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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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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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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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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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