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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
Isabel Allende Llona
Ecstasy
Absence
Presence
Angel
Reach
Divine
Hell
Damnation
Love
Descent

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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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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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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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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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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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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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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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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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