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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Opinion
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Aphrodite
Gluttony
Committing
Sins
Lust
Sin
Worth

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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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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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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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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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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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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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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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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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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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