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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Unsuspected
Life
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.
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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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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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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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