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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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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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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
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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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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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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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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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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 can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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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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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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