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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

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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Trips
Twice
Stone
Loneliness
Stones
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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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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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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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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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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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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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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