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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Believe
Seek
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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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 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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