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She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

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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Love
Cities
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Impossible
Torment
Justice
Delicious
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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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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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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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She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
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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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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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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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The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
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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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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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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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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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