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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
Sins
Lust
Sin
Worth
Opinion
Two
Aphrodite
Gluttony
Committing

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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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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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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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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 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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It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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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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