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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

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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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Journey
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Mesmerizing
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Exile
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Inward
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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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Empowering women means trusting them.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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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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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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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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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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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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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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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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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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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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