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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

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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Divine
Hell
Damnation
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Descent
Ecstasy
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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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